Just as Bell had accomplished later on in its history, the Standards soon rose up to dominate the market, becoming more valuable than the original trust. Competition and a dynasty breakup More and more Standard Oil companies were becoming common across the country, without the venerable Standard...
Boyd, Josh. "The Rhetoric of Arrogance: The Public Relations Response of the Standard Oil Trust." Public Relations Review 27 (2001): 163‐178.Boyd, J. (2001). The rhetoric of arrogance: The public relations of the Standard Oil Trust. Public ...
1906: Standard Oil Company of California was formed to take over the Pacific coast marketing area of Pacific Coast Oil and Iowa Standard. Iowa Standard was liquidated prior to the Trust breakup, despite being mentioned in court papers. Also that year, Standard Oil Company of Nebraska was formed...
Myth 1: Comparing Google with Standard Oil Arguments for and against antitrust actionoften use earlier casesas reference points. The massive19th-century monopoly Standard Oil, for example, has been referred to as the “Google of its day.” There are ...
Founded in 1882, Standard Oil of New Jersey was one component of the trust; by design the Standard Oil Trust embraced a maze of legal structures, which made its workings virtually impervious to public investigation and understanding. As Ida Tarbell wrote in her History of the Standard Oil ...
…Ida Tarbell wrote in herHistory of the Standard Oil Company(1904), “You could argue its existence from its effects, but you could not prove it.” In 1892 the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the trust dissolved, but it effectively continued to operate from headquarters in New York City. ...
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Ida Tarbell, American investigative journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), which helped define the trend to investigate, expose, and crusade in liberal journals