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• Oil barons rise again

  - 2009-02-22

  The 20th century was bracketed by two very important events. The first occurred when President Teddy Roosevelt gained his fame as the "Trust Buster" by forcing the breakup of Standard Oil, the conniving "Big Oil" monopoly of the day. The century ended with the sight of our beloved national politicians...

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• Chevron Beginnings: W.S. Rheem

  - 2009-01-18

  It was on a fine Sunday in April in 1919 that William S. Rheem decided to motor with his family from his home in Oakland to Santa Cruz, perhaps to take a look at the ocean. While most people still traveled by horse and buggy at the time,...

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• 1928: Standard Oil Beacon goes up on Mount Diablo

  - 2009-01-11

  The Chevron Corporate Archive in Concord preserves the history of the company and the companies it acquired and those with which it merged. This week's story about the Mount Diablo Standard Oil Beacon was made possible by this amazing resource. Part 2 The New York Stock...

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• SPARRING WITH DRAGONS: Captain Giliberto-A Yangtze Legend

  - 2008-08-01

  When Gaetano Giliberto first saw the middle section of the Yangtze River above Hankow, it was the spring of 1927. That date was significant for two reasons. First, it marked the worst flooding that the Yangtze had experienced in many decades, and second, it coincided with perhaps the most violent...

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• Standard Oil and Yukos in the Context of Early Capitalism in the United States and Russia

  - 2008-07-01

  Abstract: The author compares two conflicts between large businesses and the state in the United States and Russia. Although almost one hundred years apart, the Standard Oil and Yukos cases are comparable in so far as they erupted in the context of early capitalism in a weak institutional environment. Both...

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• REMEMBERING IDA TARBELL: Standard Oil investigation set out to capture an era-and readers

  - 2008-01-01

  Publishers, editors and reporters struggling to keep journalism forceful and print itself vital might take heart in the story behind The History of the Standard oil Company, the classic exposé published in McClure's Magazine a century ago. The story hit with the force that the Enron scandal would have a...

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• There's something not natural about South African synthetic-oil firm

  - 2007-08-17

  TAKING STOCK Dear Mr. Berko: Please tell me about Sasol, a synthetic-oil and -gas producer in South Africa. Do synthetic diesel, airplane fuel and gas really work? Where did they get this process, and why doesn't the U.S. use it to reduce its cost? And is it true...

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• 7 JUNE 1945

  - 2007-06-07

  HARRY S TRUMAN above writes in his diary: "Uncle Joe agreed to reconsider the Polish question. We may get a peace yet. [But] every time we get things halfway right with the Soviets, some smart aleck has to attack them. I'm not afraid of Russia. They've always been our...

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• Gilded Age generosity.(ARTS & CULTURE)

  - 2007-03-10

  Byline: T.L. Ponick, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The late 19th and early 20th centuries are regarded by many as the golden age of America's "robber barons": wealthy, ruthless industrialists who would stop at nothing to increase the size of their companies and their...

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• High seas: encrusted jewels lifted fresh from the ocean.(Accessories Flash)(Brief article)

  - 2006-12-01

  In terms of jewelry, the life aquatic can be the life exotic. Rene Boivin's starfish brooch comes heavily encrusted with amethysts and cabochon rubies, along with an esteemed pedigree. Of the original three made in the Thirties, one was owned by film star Claudette Colbert and ...

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