" After the Rockefellers, the next largest stockholder in Standard Oil was I.G. Farben, the giant German chemical company. This investment was part of a pattern of reciprocal investments between the U.S. and Germany during the Nazi years. During the Great Depression, Germany was viewed as a hot area in which to invest. "
actually they (maine ww1 vet casualties) were drafted and many tried to get hardship deferments cause they knew war was created by standard oil of germany
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee120/node/233
"In 1912, this company became the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), formed with the purpose of acquiring concessions from the Ottoman Empire to explore for oil in Mesopotamia. The owners were a group of large European companies – Deutsche Bank, the Anglo Saxon Oil Company (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell), the National Bank of Turkey (a British concern) –and Turkish-born Armenian businessman Calouste Gulbenkian.[8] The driving force behind its creation was Gulbenkian, and the largest single shareholder was the British government-controlled Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which by 1914 held 50% of the shares. "
" On May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court upheld the lower court judgment and declared the Standard Oil group to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, Section II. It ordered Standard to break up into 90 independent companies with different boards of directors, the biggest two of the companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey (which became Exxon) and Standard Oil of New York (which became Mobil).[39] "
" John dropped out of high school in 1855 to take a business course. He worked as a bookkeeper and then teamed up with a friend to start a grain commission business. In 1863, the Civil War propelled him into the oil business. That year, he – like J.P. Morgan and other rising stars – paid $300 to avoid conscription. "
https://books.google.com/books?id=bZMeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=standard+oil+in+germany+1911&source=bl&ots=QlZACvBj2b&sig=pFcgQ3jx52ernpvbp3t2fEAimog&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTgdjCmJPUAhUmxYMKHbeODAoQ6AEINDAE#v=onepage&q=standard%20oil%20in%20germany%201911&f=false
"devil bill " william rockefeller
" As near as anyone can tell, “Rock Oil” was in fact just a mixture of laxative and petroleum and had no effect whatsoever on the cancer of the poor townsfolk he conned into buying it. But “Dr. Bill” didn’t have to worry about the consequences when his customers discovered they’d been had; he never stayed in any one place for very long "
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