John D. Rockefeller, one of the most powerful and wealthiest people in history, built Standard Oil into a massive monopoly by ruthlessly eliminating competitors. Government intervention led to the ...

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 9. -John D. Rockefeller came here yesterday noon for luncheon at the Mansion House, ate lobster and planked chicken, "jollied" members of the Middlesex Grand Jury ...

The Rockefeller ... rate of oil production in Pennsylvania accelerating, he opened a refinery near Pittsburgh in 1863. Within just two years, it had become the largest in the area. In 1870, John and ...

Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.) ...

The so-called Cleveland Massacre was the beginning of John D. Rockefeller's drive toward ... 30 years later in her The History of the Standard Oil Company. "Nobody waited to find out his ...

to overthrow the Standard Oil Company, to satisfy the petty spite against it because forsooth her father and brother could not compete in the oil business. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Rockefeller ...

The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S.