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Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller belongs in the turn of the century because he
was a major asset in making the US and the world what it is today.
Rockefeller accomplished many things in his lifetime, which helped shape
the world as it is today. He created and developed the Standard Oil
Company which set the standards for the oil industry. Rockefeller was also
one of the first major philanthropists in the ....
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.... were merged
in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It is
estimated that Standard Oil owned three-fourths of the petroleum business
in the US in the 1890s.
Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great
funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific
efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this: to create
charitable corporations and give them title to great funds, whose
managements and use would be gover ....
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