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	Standard Oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Oil (1863 - 1911) was the largest oil refining organization in the history of the United States.
		Standard Oil Trust quickly attracted attention from antitrust authorities and the Ohio Attorney General filed and won an antitrust suit in 1892.
		Standard Oil, being formed well before the discovery of Spindletop and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standard_Oil (1026 words)

	Standard Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standard Oil was an oil refining company founded by John D. Rockefeller and partners in 1863.
		Standard Oil, formed well before the discovery of Spindletop and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
		The "Standard Oil" man was constantly reminded in a thousand and one ways that punishment for disloyalty is sure and terrible, and that in no corner of the earth can he escape it, nor can any power on earth protect him from it.
	www.fluidevelopment.com /encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/s/st/standard_oil.html (1196 words)

	Encyclopedia: Standard Oil of Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standard Oil of Colorado was chartered in Denver in 1922.
		Standard Oil of Colorado was simply a scam to cash in on the Standard Oil name, and owned no wells, refineries, or gasoline stations.
		It was sued in 1931 by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana (which was interested in expanding its marketing influence into the Colorado area) over use of the "Standard Oil" name.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Standard-Oil-of-Colorado (281 words)

	Standard Oil biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standard Oil Trust attracted attention from antitrust authorities and the Ohio Attorney General filed and won an antitrust suit in 1892.
		Unwanted attention was also drawn to the Standard Oil Trust by Ida M. Tarbell, an American author and journalist, known as one of the leading muckrakers.
		Standard Oil was often not appreciated by the public.
	standard-oil.biography.ms (1311 words)

	Encyclopedia: Standard Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It was one of the successor companies to Standard Oil after the antitrust breakup in 1911.
		Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio was an American oil company that was acquired by British Petroleum, now part of BP.
		Standard Oil of Louisiana was originally founded by John D Rockefeller as Standard Oil.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Standard-Oil (2654 words)

	Standard Oil in 1941
		Standard Oil of Louisiana was offically absorbed by Jersey Standard in 1944.
		Standard Oil of Nebraska was strongly allied with Indiana Standard, which enveloped it and supplied it.
		Standard Oil of Kansas was acquired by Indiana Standard in 1948.
	www.us-highways.com /sohist1941.htm (1182 words)

	Standard Oil in 1911
		Standard Oil of Indiana (Stanolind) was awarded Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas and northern Missouri.
		Standard Oil Company of Louisiana (Stanocola) was awarded eastern Louisiana (New Orleans and vicinity) and Tennessee - This company was completely under the control of Jersey Standard before the 1911 breakup.
		Standard Oil of California (Socal) was awarded Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, California, British Columbia and the territories of Alaska and Hawaii.
	www.us-highways.com /sohist1911.htm (643 words)

	The Seven Sisters
		But the Arabs with the most oil, led by the Saudis, were not keen on sharing their revenues with Egypt who had almost none, and it was not until after the revolution in Iraq in July 1958 that there were the beginnings of some unity.
		But in the second place these restrictive agreements were ammunition to the producing governments, for they implied that the economic growth of their countries was being secretly dictated by the boardrooms of private companies: and in the growing mood of nationalism and self-awareness this was increasingly unacceptable.
		Roustabouts for the oil rigs were recruited from the Highlands at four times the average wage: Aberdeen became a kind of dour Houston of the North, with the workers from the rigs drinking away their savings while oil company scouts tried to pick up hints of new strikes.
	www.green-trust.org /7sisters/ch8opec.htm (9975 words)

	A History of the Standard Oil Company
		Republic Oil was dissolved and its assets sold to Indiana Standard, Ohio Standard, and Waters-Pierce.
		Standard Oil of Colorado was chartered in Denver in 1922, the unused charter was recinded in 1926.
		Esso Standard Oil (Jersey Standard) didn't care to have motorists confused, considering it was operating Esso stations in the state at the time and spending significant funds on advertising.
	www.us-highways.com /sohist.htm (1862 words)

	Cajuns in Film: Cajuns: Movies: Documentaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standard Oil funded Louisiana Story, in part to vaunt the progress brought by the oil industry.
		When their sleepy fishing village is invaded by the slick, aggressive oil men, they revolt, struggling haplessly and hopelessly against progress which is eventually rammed down their ungrateful throats.
		Gaines eventually came to be writer-in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, at Lafayette, in the heart of the Cajun country.
	ccet.louisiana.edu /Cajuns_in_Film.html (6052 words)

	Standard Oil
		Perhaps the most infamous action of Standard Oil was its involvement with IG Farben.
		The two organisations worked together to build a plant for the manufacture of synthetic rubber in Nazi Germany, using slave labour from Auschwitz.
		The History of the Standard Oil Company, by Ida Tarbell, full text, HTML
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/standard_oil (962 words)

	Standard Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Standard Oil was an oil refining company founded by John D. Standard Oil was an oil refining company founded by John D. Rockefeller and his partners on 1863.
		Private security officers fired on a tent city inhabited by workers and their families, causing numerous deaths and a public relations disaster.
		"Standard Oil's" governing rules were as rigid as the laws of the Medes and Persians, yet so simple as to be easily understood by any one:
	www.termsdefined.net /st/standard-oil.html (1385 words)

	FINAL WARNING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rockefeller's goal was for Standard Oil to be the world's only refining company, and to that end, it was alleged that he blew up a competitor's refinery in Buffalo, New York.
		On May 15, 1911, Standard Oil was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and the U. Supreme Court ordered, in a 20,000 word decision, the breakup of Standard Oil of New Jersey.
		The Court said that Standard Oil wanted to establish a monopoly in order "to drive others from the field and exclude them from their right to trade," and that "seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens.
	www.govsux.com /NWO3.htm (11723 words)

	ANCIENNES CARTES ROUTIERES DE FRANCE
		In 1911, the US Supreme Court decided that the monopoly was not in the best interest of the public, and ordered Standard to dissolve into 30 or so separate companies with no ties to the others whatsoever.
		Standard of Kentucky sued Humble, claiming that Esso was a derivative of Standard Oil and had no right to use that name in their territory.
		In 1973, Humble oil became Exxon corporation; all Esso, Enco, and Humble stations in the US were converted to Exxon.
	oldmaps.free.fr /oil/standard.htm (545 words)

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		In 1917, the Harmony Club sold the building and for seven years held meetings in a hotel suite until they leased the second floor of a building on the corner of St. Charles Avenue and Common Street.
		The beautiful building was sold again in 1923 to Standard Oil of Louisiana.
		A picture of the building appeared in the paper in July 1963, just before it was leveled to make room for a 12-level, multimillion-dollar apartment house.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2001-08-07/blake.html (695 words)

	Standard Oil - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The following quotation (from journalist Thomas Lawson's 1905 book, Frenzied Finance) perhaps epitomises the company as perceived by many of Standard Oil's detractors.
		Standard Oil Company History (http://www.us-highways.com/sohist.htm) by Robert Droz
		Categories: Oil companies of the United States
	www.free-definition.com /Standard-Oil.html (953 words)

	Collectible and Antique Paper, Maps on CYBERATTIC.
		The Standard Kansas was printed in the forties.
		The Standard SW USA map is a bit brittle and has a long tear.
		The Standard Kansas is in good shape except for one torn corner and the word shaver written on the...
	www.cyberattic.com /directory/Paper:Maps.html (1095 words)

	AHQ: The Discovery of Oil in South Arkansas,197 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hunter of the Hunter Oil Company of Shreveport, Louisiana, completed the first oil well in Arkansas two and a half miles east of Stephens in southwest Ouachita County and just north of the Union County line.
		Later Colonel Hunter sold the lease of 20,000 acres, including the discovery well, to Standard Oil Company of Louisiana for $2,225,000-$850,000 in cash, the remainder in oil.
		They later sold about half of these holdings to Standard Oil of Louisiana.
	www.saumag.edu /swark/articles/ahq/union_co/oildiscovery/union-co-oil197.html (327 words)

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	Womack Obituaries Louisiana
		A native of Kentwood and resident of Zachary, she was retired from the Louisiana Department of Corrections at Angola.
		Womack attended Louisiana Tech and was a 1954 graduate of LSU Law School where he graduated 4th in his class and was honored with membership in the Order of the Coif.
		He was a former security officer with Esso Standard Oil Co. and Louisiana Department of Corrections at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.
	www.womacknet.net /obit/wobitsla.htm (13055 words)

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		TIA-222 : August 2005 : Structural Standards for Steel Antenna Towers and Antenna Supporting Structures.
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	Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal" now Chevron since 1895
		Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal" now Chevron since 1895
		Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal," [now Chevron] -- since 1895
		The Pacific Coast Oil Company, later known as Standard Oil of California or "SoCal", and now known as Chevron, was founded in 1895.
	www.usmm.org /socalships.html (176 words)

	Center for South Louisiana Studies
		The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and The Creoles of German Descent, by J. Hanno Deiler, 1969
		Forms of Racial Interaction in Louisiana, 1860-1880, Dissertation by Geraldine Mary McTigue, December 1975, Chapter I, The Free People of Color in New Orleans: A Psychological Portrait, pp.
		Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of Burrwood, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Final Report, July 10, 1985, R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc., Prepared for Department of the Army, New Orleans, Louisiana.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Depts/RegionalStudies/archivalcoll/H-L/jackson,joy.html (14450 words)

	John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty - Hodding Carter
		John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty - Hodding Carter
		Title: John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty
		Publisher: Shreveport, Louisiana: Esso Standard Oil Company, 1952
	www.needabook.com /si/7187.html (44 words)

Standard Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)

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