You may know it as the Standard Oil Building, a handsome dinosaur looming over St. Paul Place in downtown Baltimore. Now, like Madonna and Cher, it has just one name — the Standard — an… ...

OIL CITY, Penn., July 13. In order to free themselves from the Standard Oil Company's monopoly, which has had absolute control of the oil business for a number of years, manipulating the market to ...

At its heyday, Standard refined 90 to 95 percent of the world's oil. At its breakup in 1911, it was valued at $600 million, or nearly $15 billion today.

Reddit user sverdrupian has posted an amazing, 73-year-old map showing what the world looked like from the view of Standard Oil. By 1940, the Standard Oil trust created by John D. Rockefeller had ...