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An Oil-Patch Brawl Over a $53 Billion Megadeal Entwines the Legacies of Three CEOs
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoThe clash between the two largest descendants of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly has...
The Case For Breaking Up Ticketmaster, 'The Monopoly Of Our Time That Everybody Hates'
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLike, what is this? If this law was written for something, it was written for the Standard Oil...
Reviewing the news: New captain in town
Cheboygan Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe retirement ceremony on May 17 for Lieutenant Commander Mayr was held while the ship was tied up at the Standard Oil storage tanks. In order to enter...
Inside the Rockefeller Clan’s Intensifying Feud With Exxon
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoThey have suffered reversals in their efforts to hold the energy giant to account for climate...
Today in History: May 23, Bonnie and Clyde shot and killed
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoToday in History
Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still...
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThough the dangers of leaded gasoline and CFCs are now well-known, their inventor was once lauded as...
Greenwich land at center of tree-cutting dispute involving Gov. Ned Lamont once owned by...
Greenwich Time· 6 days agoWhat should be replanted on land in Greenwich's midcountry where at least 180 trees, if not...
The Overseas Highway: The US' 'floating' highway
BBC News· 4 days agoAs many Americans hit the road this weekend to kick off the unofficial start of summer in the US, we're revisiting one of our favourite road trip stories about an engineering marvel stretching ...
Today in History: May 23
The Herald Bulletin· 5 days agoIn 1937, industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, died in Ormond Beach,...
Ellen Maria Skaates
The Mining Journal· 3 days agoLOWER GWYNEDD TWP, PA- Ellen Maria Skaates, 88, of Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania entered eternal life on May 21st, 2024, at the Spring House...