It is therefore not likely that such favors had great influence in making this single firm the most successful in the largest refining center.

With the organization of the Standard Oil Company, however, rebates became a more important consideration.
The turning-point in the history of the oil industry came when the Rockefeller interests acquired the Cleveland refineries.

The details concerning this act of generalship are fairly well known.

The South Improvement Company is a corporation that necessarily bulks large in the history of the Standard Oil.

Mr.Rockefeller and his associates have always disclaimed the parentage of this organization.