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1904 depiction of an acquisitive and manipulative Standard Oil (founded by John D. Rockefeller) as an all-powerful octopus. Robber baron is a term first applied as social criticism by 19th century muckrakers and others to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., a businessman and member of the Rockefeller family, was heavily involved in the construction of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s. He wanted to have a 63 by 17 feet (19.2 by 5.2 m) mural placed on the lobby wall of the RCA Building (now 30 Rockefeller Plaza), the largest structure in Rockefeller Center . [ 4 ]
As Rockefeller's wealth grew, so did his giving, primarily to educational and public health causes, but also for basic science and the arts. He was advised primarily by Frederick Taylor Gates [110] after 1891, [111] and, after 1897, also by his son. Rockefeller with his son John Jr., 1915
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The company was founded in 1866 as the "Star Tank Line" by Captain Jacob J. Vandergrift (1827–1899), [6] in response to the economic activities of John D. Rockefeller in the years leading up to his creation of Standard Oil. [1] Vandergrift was involved in the conflicts in the oil regions of Western Pennsylvania in the 1860s–1870s. [7]
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, earning his immense fortune after gaining control of 90 percent of American oil production in the late 1800s. The oil ...
Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan team up to help elect William McKinley to the U.S. presidency by paying for his 1896 campaign, to avoid a possible attack on monopolies. However, fate intervenes when McKinley is suddenly assassinated , and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency and promptly begins dissolving monopolies and ...
The 70s to today After the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s, energy stocks rallied as gas and oil prices skyrocketed. Energy's weight in the S&P 500 went from 7% in 1972 to 28% at the tail end of 1980.