* 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.

In July he traveled to Washington, D. C. and received friends and disciples at the home of Mrs. James Terry ( Ivy ) Duce, wife of the vice-president of the Arabian American Oil Co.

at 315 & n. 7 ; but see Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U. S. 470, 493 n. 23, 94 S. Ct.

In 1974, the United States Supreme Court issued the landmark decision, Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U. S. 470, 94 S. Ct.

grappled with the new antitrust statutes ( Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States ), upheld the constitutionality of military conscription ( Selective Draft Law Cases ) and brought the substantive due process doctrine to its first apogee ( Adkins v. Children's Hospital ).

* April 13 – Robert O. Anderson, American businessman, founder of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. ( d. 2007 )

At Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States 221 U. S. 1, 221 U. S. 54-58.

* Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States

Blaustein incorporated his business as the American Oil Co. in 1922.

United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U. S. 150, 240, 60 S. Ct.

The United States Supreme Court summarized why Congress authorized private antitrust lawsuits in the case Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal., 405 U. S. 251, 262 ( 1972 ):

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 ).

In State Oil Co. v Khan, the US Supreme Court held that vertical price fixing is no longer considered a per se violation of the Sherman Act, but horizontal price fixing is still considered a breach of the Sherman Act.

Patrick Tormey also sold land in the nearby town of Oleum to the California Lumber Co. for use as a lumberyard ( which eventually would be sold to the Union Oil Co. for an oil refinery site ).

Residents were able to continue to find work in nearby towns of Crockett ( C & H Sugar ), Vallejo ( the Mare Island Naval Shipyard ), Hercules ( Hercules Powder Co .), and the aforementioned Union Oil Co. in Oleum.

An oil refinery formerly operated in the city under several different owners ( Caminol Oil Co. from 1932 – 1967, Beacon Oil Co. from 1967 – 1982 and Ultramar Oil Co. from 1982 – 1987 ) until it permanently closed in 1987.

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.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

* Ashland Inc., formerly known as Ashland Oil ( named for Ashland, Kentucky )

The Marathon Oil Co., then known as the Ohio Oil Co., made the first discovery and then Pure Oil Co., began operations and made Noble quite a place for employment in the oil fields.

* Tecumseh, Furniture Brands International, Hancock Fabrics, Inc., Magnolia Fabrics, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Mississippi, H. M. Richards, JESCO Construction, MTD Products, Savings Oil Company ( Dodge's Stores ), and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company all operate or are headquartered in Tupelo and Lee County.

* John G. Blowers, Jr., Humble Oil heir, musician, closely associated with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday among others, philanthropist

* Albert C. Bostwick, Jr., steeplechase jockey, Thoroughbred racehorse owner / breeder / trainer, heir to the Standard Oil Trust

Midnight Oil ’ s albums which peaked in the Australian Top Ten were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails in the Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Scream in Blue ( Live ), Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe, 20, 000 Watt R. S. L., Redneck Wonderland, The Real Thing, Capricornia and Flat Chat.

The quantity of oil spilled during accidents has ranged from a few hundred tons to several hundred thousand tons ( e. g., Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Atlantic Empress, Amoco Cadiz ).

Bulova Watch Co., Sun Oil Co., Lever Bros. Co. and Procter & Gamble sign on as sponsors of the first commercial telecasts from WNBT in New York.

In 1980, Sun acquired the U. S. oil and gas properties of Texas Pacific Oil Company, Inc., a subsidiary of The Seagram Company, Ltd., for US $ 2. 3 billion — the second largest acquisition in U. S. history to that date.

* World Internet News: " Big Oil Looking for a Government Handout ," April 2006.

It first appeared in " Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels ," geologist M. King Hubbert's 1956 presentation to the American Petroleum Institute, as an idealized symmetric curve, during his tenure at the Shell Oil Company.

* Rintoul, William, " Wood Derricks and Steel Men ," Drilling Through Time, ( Sacramento, California: California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil and Gas, 1990 ), pp. 13 – 15.

In the early days of the boom, Noble residents placed Noble a large sign over Route 50 in the village reading " Noble, The Oil Center of the World ," in August 1937.

His father's lucrative contract with the Caucasian Oil Company having expired, Richard Sorge's family moved back to Germany: in Sorge's own words ," The one thing that made my life a little different from the average was a strong awareness of the fact that I had been born in the southern Caucasus and that we had moved to Berlin when I was very small.

Kuwaiti Oil Minister Minister Hani Hussein stated that " Under the supply and demand theory, oil prices today are not justified ," in an interview with Upstream.

As a former subsidiary of Standard Oil, SoCal had traditionally used the brand name " Standard ," but in the 1930s, it began using " Chevron " on some of its retail products, which eventually would later become its dominant brand name.

* Black, Edwin " Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives ," especially Chapter 10, St. Martins Press 2006

A secondary, previously unknown Boiling Oil trap failed when a henchman confused it for " Hot Voile ," which was being warmed in a clothes dryer.

The song " In the Valley " from the album Earth and Sun and Moon by Australian pop / rock band Midnight Oil opens with the line, " My grandfather went down on the Montevideo / The Rising Sun sent him floating to his rest ," sung by Peter Garrett.

* Kramer, Andrew E. " Mapmakers and Mythmakers: Russian Disinformation Practices Obscure Even Today's Oil Fields ," New York Times ( 1 December 2005 ): C1.

As a one man business, he mixed " Plough's Antiseptic Healing Oil ," a " sure cure for any ill of man or beast ," and sold it off a horse-drawn buggy.

" In 1998, the band dropped the name Oil and replaced it with Camp Kill Yourself, proposed by Miller as " the new band name, the new direction, the new movement ," thus dropping their " mainstream ... pop appeal " approach.

* " Hot Oil and Hot Air: The Development of the Nondelegation Doctrine through the New Deal, a History 1813-1944 ," Andrew J. Ziaja, 35 Hastings Const.

" History of Soy Oil Shortening: A Special Report on The History of Soy Oil, Soybean Meal, & Modern Soy Protein Products ," from the unpublished manuscript, History of Soybeans and Soy foods: 1100 B. C.

Many of the words and phrases in these plays, such as " Rug Sand ," " Office Oil ," and Hospital Ice ," were taken from the page headers from the local Yellow Pages.

Wilmorite, which was constructing the Great Northern Mall in nearby Clay, was accused by the Syracuse city government of using associates in Connecticut to form the " Citizen's League for an Environmentally Acceptable Northeast ," which lobbied against construction of a mall at Oil City.

It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90, 000 active personnel, and in recent years has developed into a " multibillion-dollar business empire ," and is reportedly the " third-wealthiest organization in Iran " after the National Iranian Oil Company and the Imam Reza Endowment.

* Bill Burchardt, " Osage Oil ," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 41 ( Fall 1963 )

* Jim Doherty, " Blood for Oil ," Just the Facts-True Tales of Cops & Criminals ( Deadly Serious Press, 2004 )