Author: Paul Henry Giddens
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
Author: Paul Henry Giddens
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Publisher:
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The History of the Standard Oil Company
Author: Ida Minerva Tarbell
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Refining Nature
Author: Jon Wlasiuk
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822983249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency. Economic success masked the dark side of efficiency as Standard Oil dumped oil waste into public waterways, filled the urban atmosphere with acrid smoke, and created a consumer safety crisis by selling kerosene below congressional standards. Local governments, guided by a desire to favor the interests of business, deployed elaborate engineering solutions to tackle petroleum pollution at taxpayer expense rather than heed public calls to abate waste streams at their source. Only when refinery pollutants threatened the health of the Great Lakes in the twentieth century did the federal government respond to a nascent environmental movement. Organized around the four classical elements at the core of Standard Oil’s success (earth, air, fire, and water), Refining Nature provides an ecological context for the rise of one of the most important corporations in American history.
Official Year Book
Author: Minnesota State Federation of Labor
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Verbatim Record of the Proceedings
Author: United States. Temporary National Economic Committee
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Oil Marketing Divorcement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities
Oil Marketing Divorcement
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 8. Considers legislation to prohibit oil production companies retail sales activities.
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Category : Petroleum industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 8. Considers legislation to prohibit oil production companies retail sales activities.