Standard Oil Stocks

Author : John Graver Johnson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331571865
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book United States of America Vs written by John Graver Johnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from United States of America Vs: Standard Oil Company and Others, Brief on Behalf of Defendants Standard Oil Company and Others It is alleged that the individuals engaged in the conspiracy acquired during this period by the sale of stock interests in the Standard Oil Company of Ohio interests in the stocks and businesses of many of the concerns previously mentioned, and through these interests and agreements with other refiners controlled in the latter part of the period more than 90 per cent. Of the oil business, and were enabled to do so and crush and limit competition by means of re bates and preferential rates obtained from rail roads, particularly the Pennsylvania Railroad, the New York Central and Hudson River Rail road, with its connection the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, the Erie Railway, with its connection the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, the Jersey Central Railroad the Reading, and the Baltimore and Ohio. (pp. 19. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.