Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height, Standard Oil was the largest petroleum company in the world, and its success made its co-founder and chairman, John D. Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of […]
The United Fruit Company, now known as Chiquita Brands International, was an American firm that traded in tropical fruits cultivated on plantations in Latin America and sold in the United States and Europe. Minor C. Keith’s banana-trading enterprises merged with Andrew W. Preston’s Boston Fruit Corporation in 1899 to establish the company. It thrived in
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