Mr. Herbert L. Pratt has been chosen to be the head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, to replace Mr. Henry C. Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the ...
It was the biggest corporate split-up in the history of trustbusting, topping even the historic dismemberment of the old $660 million Standard Oil Co. in 1911. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., an $855 million ...
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2025. There are 330 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Feb. 4, 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, ...
On this day in 1916, John D. Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire. Rockefeller was known primarily as a ...
Accelerated Reader UG 9 17. Reading Counts High School 11 21. Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.0 17.0 182417. "The author of the popular History of Oil podcast traces the early-20th-century rivalry between ...
Today is Monday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2025. There are 352 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Jan. 13, 2021, President Donald Trump was ...