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* 1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an " unreasonable " monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
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* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
1911 and Standard
As a result, Jersey Standard was restricted from using Esso in the U. S., except in those states awarded to it in the 1911 Standard Oil antitrust settlement.
Following the break-up of Standard Oil in 1911, the Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony, was founded, along with 33 other successor companies.
In 1911, the year it became independent from the Standard Oil trust, the company sold 88 % of the gasoline and kerosene sold in the Midwest.
When the Standard Oil Trust was broken up in 1911, Indiana Standard was assigned marketing territory covering most of the Midwestern United States, including Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.
Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.
In 1911 the Supreme Court agreed that in recent years ( 1900 – 1904 ) Standard had violated the Sherman Act ( see Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States ).
Still, the Lima Refinery has survived, continuing to operate for more than 125 years under a succession of owners — Solar Refining Company ( 1886 ), a subsidiary of Standard Oil until the breakup in 1911, SOHIO ( 1931 ), British Petroleum ( 1987 ), Clark USA ( 1998 ), Premcor ( 2000 ), Valero Energy Corporation ( 2005 ), and most recently Husky Energy ( 2007 ).
* The Sikeston Standard Democrat is Sikeston's daily newspaper that derives its name from two of the city's previous newspapers — The Democrat Advertiser and The Daily Standard which was founded in 1911 and became a daily newspaper in 1950.
Rockefeller served as the company's New York representative until 1911 when Standard Oil of New Jersey was split up by the United States Supreme Court.
In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into 34 companies, some of which were named " Standard Oil " and had the rights to that brand in certain states ( the other companies had no territorial rights ).
However, because of the ongoing ( 1911 ) antitrust suit against Standard Oil at the time, along with deep suspicion in some quarters of undue Rockefeller influence on the spending of the endowment, the end result was that Senior and Gates withdrew the bill from Congress in order to seek a state charter.
She published A Photographic Study of Variable Stars ( 1907 ) and Spectra and Photographic Magnitudes of Stars in Standard Regions ( 1911 ).
1911 and Oil
Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.
In 1911, the land was purchased by an agent for Royal Dutch / Shell Oil, and the New Orleans Refining Company ( NORCO ) was established.
In 1911, Standard Oil Co. ( California ) was severed from its parent corporation, Standard Oil, as a result of the federal government's successful lawsuit against Standard Oil under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The Supreme Court ordered the company to dissolve in 1911 on the same day that it ordered the Standard Oil Trust to dissolve.
Instead the US Progressive Era led to a breakup of the trusts, notably the application of the Sherman Antitrust Act to Standard Oil in 1911 ; at the same time, reforms such as labor unions rights passed during the Progressive Era with further reforms during the New Deal of the 1930s.
Harlan's partial dissent in the 1911 Standard Oil anti-trust decision ( Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U. S. 1 ) penetratingly addressed issues of statutory construction reaching beyond the Sherman Anti-Trust Act itself.
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