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Old 11-18-2011, 01:53 PM  
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and he didn't have to compete with giant multi-nationals... and saying that Standard Oil was a bigger monopoly that even half of the biggest multi-nationals is ignorant to say the least. In terms of market share... maybe... but it was a very different world then. By todays standards, Standard Oil was a small business. Now they do it with subsidiaries.
ah yes, the back woods historian explaining the 1910s.

son, you go on believing whatever makes you imagine you're right.
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