"This is cheap steel, but it's a real sword."

Cost: The generic case made out of the cheapest stamped steel might fit everything, but will it hold up?

There are two things necessary for industrial civilization - cheap power and cheap steel.

After a long break-in period, that technology, called thin slab casting, is beginning to produce high-quality steel cheaper and faster than traditional methods.

Dark blotches and rust stained the poorly kept cheap steel.

"Your rim was old cheap steel, brittle and rusted," he said.

A Western steel trader visited the plant recently because he was interested in buying cheap steel.

The furnace lost out to the cheap steel dumped into the country from England.

That makes American steel more expensive and imports cheaper.

The development of cheap, versatile steel in the second half of the 19th century changed those rules.