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Standard Oil Company
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Co. Inc.
was an
American
oil
producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by
John D. Rockefeller
as a
corporation
in
Ohio
, it was the largest oil refiner in the world of its time. Its controversial history as one of the world's first and largest
multinational corporations
ended in 1911, when the
United States
Supreme Court
ruled
that Standard was an illegal
monopoly
.
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