How Rockefeller Worked
Rockefeller expected it to fail but used his role as head to see every member's books and set quotas. That showed him which operators to buy in as partners and which were already finished.
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An open association of refiners that bought crude and negotiated rail rates as a group.
Rockefeller expected it to fail but used his role as head to see every member's books and set quotas. That showed him which operators to buy in as partners and which were already finished.
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John D. Rockefeller's oil refining company that came to dominate American kerosene and oil distribution.
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