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...then slashed prices still further, and bought up ruined rivals. By 1884, Standard Oil was selling more than 80% of the oil that flowed out of U.S. wells. Though no body today defends his tactics, historians still debate whether Rockefeller did more harm or good. He organized a chaotic industry into a coordinated and efficient network of wells, pipelines, refineries, tankers and marketing facilities, establishing vertical integration, which is the' dominant form of the industry to this...
...country was chaotic. Frances FitzGerald was in Saigon the same time that I was. The city was all confusion. Americans were every where and stuck together, meeting only other Americans and those Vietnamese who, for one reason or another, were compelled to deal with our self-sufficient and insulated enclaves...
Signs of change begin at Santiago's Pudahuel airport. There are taxis now. In the chaotic days before the coup, just getting to town took a feat of near legerdemain, since cab drivers, like many other businessmen, were on strike against Allende's plans to nationalize many sectors of the economy, including transportation. Another obvious change: the multicolored graffiti that turned the walls of Santiago's buildings into checkered political billboards have been whitewashed by junta order...
...night as I watched the CBS game of the week--the spectacular showdown between the number one Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers. There were the frenzied Southern fans who had filled Birmingham's Legion Field to its 70,000 capacity--as they always do. They were jubilant, chaotic and totally drunk on the spectacle of Southern football--as they always are. I know, because I've been there...
...Felner, a B.U. student, says that as police cleared the way for this potential recruiter they accidentally drove one woman on the blockade into the building. When students crowded around to find out what had happened to the woman, the police began driving off demonstrators, arresting 12 in the chaotic process...