Standard Oil is one of the most storied companies in American history. In many senses, it is a success story that is straight out of the American dream. John D. Rockefeller built what would eventually ...

A good example of a near-monopoly from recent history is the De Beers Group, perhaps the best-known diamond mining, ...

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 ...

"The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age ... Economic success masked the dark ...

At the dawn of the 20th Century, when the American spirit of ambition and innovation was just starting to take shape, an obscure new company in the City of Kansas set its sights on transforming the ...