Rockefeller in Cleveland, Ohio in 1870, and, in just a little over a decade, it had attained control of nearly all the oil refineries in the U.S. Standard Oil Company was founded by John D. The effects of Standard Oil on the U.S., as well as on much of the rest of the world, were immense, and the lessons that can be learned from this amazing story are possibly as relevant today as they were a century ago. It occurred at a time when the country was undergoing its rapid transformation from a mainly agricultural society to the greatest industrial powerhouse the world has ever known. The saga of Standard Oil ranks as one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the U.S. The Standard Oil monopoly, by the Linux Information Project (LINFO) LINFO
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