Rockefeller, who became one of the richest men in history with the earnings from Standard Oil.
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David Rockefeller Sr. is the only living grandson of Standard Oil founder John D.
Years ago you compared General Motors with Ford and Standard Oil of New Jersey with Texaco.
Most Americans remember Theodore Roosevelt as the trustbusting president who brought down Standard Oil.
Seven of the final 10 teams doubled the standard oil recovery rate of 1, 100 gallons per minute.
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Teddy Roosevelt and his trust-busting days are long gone but Standard Oil's breakup should serve as a warning.
The city was founded at the turn of the last century by high-living Standard Oil tycoon Henry M.
Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and (at that time) richest man in the world.
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Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. (Often regarded as the richest person in history).
Also in 1985 with American Natural Resources, and in 1986 with Standard Oil of Ohio and in 2000 with General Motors.
In the ten years after the divestiture of Standard Oil in 1911, for example, the trust's constituent companies quintupled in value.
Rockefeller struck a fortune when he founded Standard Oil Company in 1870.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1912 resulted in no less than 38 separate companies, including such energy industry giants as Amoco, Chevron and Exxon.
Monopolies like Standard Oil and DuPont looked bad: they looked greedy and ruthless and, in the case of DuPont, which made munitions, sinister.
Whether it is Standard Oil in the late 19th century, or Microsoft in the 20th century, the consequences for the economy are consistent.
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. had abused its monopoly power to keep others from competing and ordered the company to divide into 34 separate companies.
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"U.S. antipathy to oil companies goes back to the Standard Oil Trust over 100 years ago, " he said, referring to the company John D.
In a sense, Amazon.com has been applying a number of strategies regular companies have deployed for years, including Standard Oil, the famous monopoly of the 1880s.
Politics weighed more than economics in the Standard Oil case.
Tony Santora worked at Hyde and Union, Shabby Minafo had the Standard Oil Building, Dario Lodigiani sold at Montgomery and Sutter, Frank Venezia was three blocks away at Battery and California.
Imagine if Standard Oil had been a venture-backed company.
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John Philby, father of the infamous Communist spy Kim Philby, converted to Islam in order to serve as a top-level intermediary between then-King Ibn Saud and Standard Oil of California (now ChevronTexaco).
Using research from the Ohio labs of the old Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), now a division of BP, Lee has a solid oxide cell that can be configured to run on natural gas, soy oil or farm wastes.
In a single year, without any federal funding, the X Prize had identified a problem, incentivized a solution, and produced a more efficient and cheaper technology that more than quadrupled the industry standard for cleaning oil spills.
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It is a greater challenge to measure real price changes in computers, software and telecoms equipment undergoing rapid innovation than in a standard commodity such as oil.
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