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 ...

Staring at a computer in his company's office, Roy Friedman can see the fruit of a century of labor. Lights blink on a map from Greenwich to New Haven and from Danbury to Hartford, informing him how ...

When the Standard Oil Refinery in Whiting experienced a devastating explosion just after dawn on Saturday, Aug. 27, 1955, it was felt as far away as Holland, Mich. Across Indianapolis Boulevard, less ...

Standard Oil was apparently something you were supposed to remember from high school. That's because until Tuesday, the company was still the subject of a Justice Department decree forcing it to split ...

Despite Amazon’s undisputed centrality in the contemporary digital economy, a close look at its core business model reveals it to be surprisingly conventional. Before the invention of e-commerce, mail ...

IN THE MIDST of the storm and the thunder, the lightning strikes. American industry and the press have demanded of labor whether, after opposing a cut in wages, it dares to look General MacArthur in ...

To mark our 40th anniversary, Crain’s Cleveland Business will take a look back every week in 2020 at the people, events and institutions that helped shape Cleveland and the region since 1980, and why ...

In 1911 the Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government’s eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than ...

CHICAGO, July 22, 1908 (UP) - The $29,240,000 fine assessed against the Standard Oil Co. has been set aside. The case will be tried all over again. Supreme Court decision breaking up Standard Oil ...