Encyclopedia entry: Standard Oil v. United ...
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States;      547 words ...Standard Oil v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911), argued ... Court, Harlan concurring. The Standard Oil case was decided at a time when ... dissolving it under the Sherman Act, Standard Oil appealed to the Supreme Court ...

Article: Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United ...
Dictionary of American History;      379 words ...STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY V. UNITED STATES STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY V. UNITED STATES, 221 U.S. 1 (1911), originated in 1906 when the federal government filed a suit against more than seventy corporations and individuals ...

Article: British Petroleum Co. PLC wins six-week bid for complete control ...
PR Newswire;  May 13, 1987 ;     700+ words ...LONDON, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- BP has won its six-week bid for complete control of its U.S. associate, Standard Oil. The company announced today that it now owns 95 percent of Standard and intends to merge the Cleveland-based group ...

Article: Standard Oil and Yukos in the context of early ...
Demokratizatsiya;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the state in the United States and Russia. Although ... years apart, the Standard Oil and Yukos cases ... prove that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana ... business tycoon in the United States and the founder of Standard Oil. Rockefeller ignored ...

Article: Russia and the United States: no longer rivals, not ...
Demokratizatsiya;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... other, Russia and the United States are nonetheless moving ... output. As in the United States, the main role in ... However, in the United States this capital came from ... founder of the famous Standard Oil Trust was John Davison ...

Article: The other half of standard oil: John D. Rockefeller ...
The American (Washington, DC);  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... him. But by 1880, Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled 80 percent of the by-then ... began serializing "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine ... extremely influential. By the time Standard Oil was ordered broken up by the Supreme ...

Article: BP OFFERS $7.4B FOR STANDARD OIL
The Boston Globe;  March 27, 1987 ;     551 words ... ... what was then called Standard Oil (Ohio) sold a controlling ... reserves in Alaska. Standard Oil, the 11th-largest oil concern in the United States, also has interests ... D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust in 1870 to retain ...