Word: cleveland
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...been variously known as the Standard Oil Trust, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Esso and now Exxon has survived wars, expropriations, brutalizing competition, muckraking attacks and even dismemberment by the U.S. Supreme Court (in 1911). It has not only survived but has also grown -from a refinery in Cleveland to a global behemoth that sells petroleum in more than 100 countries through some 300 subsidiaries and affiliates that make up a "United Nations of oil." Not only grown but also prospered-so much so that last month it reported the largest annual profit ever earned by any industrial company...
John D.'s Legacy. The company certainly did not always enjoy such a sound reputation. In fact, in its early days under John D. 'Rockefeller, it was a ruthless monopoly. Rockefeller opened a refinery in Cleveland in 1863, combined it with several others under the name Standard Oil in 1870, and set up the Standard Oil Trust in 1882. Standard Oil bribed many politicians and cut prices to the marrow in order to drive out competitors. One of John D.'s favorite techniques was to negotiate secret rebates from railroads, which were eager to carry Standard's petroleum; he handed...
...least ten rigs, which had been punctured by gunfire; one driver was shot in the shoulder and hospitalized. In New Jersey, independents picketed gasoline terminals owned by Hess, Amoco and Chevron, trying to prevent shipments to service stations. State police escorted trucks through strife-torn areas outside Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. At week's end Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Ernest P. Kline called out the National Guard to prevent further violence...
Thompson does not differ radically in philosophy from most of the other major political figures in the state. His fellow Republicans, Congressmen Louis Wyman and James Cleveland, and Senator Norris Cotton, are all hard-line conservatives. Senator Thomas McIntire, a Henry Jackson Democrat, is the most progressive of the state's political leaders...
...Lambres of Cleveland said James Pierce, his client, pleaded the Fifth Amendment right to protection from self-incrimination when he was called to testify...