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    Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911.

  2. Standard Oil uses a sophisticated, computerized oil delivery system so we can reliably estimate your heating oil usage and dispatch a truck to make deliveries at the most appropriate time. Our advanced system allows us to account for seasonal fluctuations in weather or to adjust your oil delivery schedule because of a pending snow storm.

  3. Mar 28, 2024 · Standard Oil (in full, Standard Oil Company and Trust) was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States.

  4. Apr 9, 2010 · John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York,...

  5. Apr 13, 2024 · This work explores how seven companies came to dominate the oil industry by the 1940s, after anti-trust laws forced Standard Oil into 34 different companies. Short histories of each of Seven Sisters are located in chapters three and four.

  6. May 29, 2018 · In the decades after the Civil War this buzzing, frenetic activity formed the backdrop for the emergence of a new way of organizing business on an unprecedented large scale: the business trust. The instrument that devised this innovation was the Standard Oil Company, led by John D. Rockefeller. Growth.

  7. Dec 28, 2023 · At the beginning of the 20th century Standard Oil Co. was one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations and its chairman, John D. Rockefeller, was the first billionaire.

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