Results for Pittsburgh
Results for Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Grease Plant
Long a major producer of lubricating grease for industry, transportation, and the military. In WWII, supplied 5,000,000 pounds of “Eisenhower grease,” vital to the war effort. Founded here, 1885, by Grant McCargo. After 1929, part of Standard Oil (NJ); operated ...
The Pittsburgh Agreement
Signed here, on May 31, 1918, this document declared the intent of Czechs and Slovaks to form a new democratic nation in Europe, free from outside rule. Later that year, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, an author of the agreement, became the ...
Pittsburgh
Gateway to the West and steel center of the world. Named for William Pitt by Gen. Forbes after the fall of French Fort Duquesne in 1758. Laid out as a town by John Campbell in 1764. Incorporated as a city, ...
