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How did John D. Rockefeller get famous?

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John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company acquired pipelines and terminal facilities, purchased competing refineries, and vigorously sought to expand its markets. Those practices enabled the company to negotiate with railroads for favoured rates on its shipments of oil. By 1882 Standard Oil had a near monopoly on the oil business in the United States.

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