Ida Tarbell and the Standard Oil Company
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- John Rockefeller decides to make shipping oil cheaper for him, so he can buy out all other companies.
- I want those small businesses gone! Tell the railroad companies to increase the rebate!
- Ida Tarbell's father must close his small oil company because of Rockefeller.
- How can one man destroy so many oil companies?
- Rockefeller has bought out all the other companies, I'm afraid I'll have to close mine.
- About 10 years later...
- I will work my way up in a magazine company, and maybe look into Rockefeller.
- Since my other stories were so well received I would like to do a biography on the standard oil company!
- Hmm, okay, just make it flattering.
- After a few years of successful writing, Ida decides it's time for her to look into Rockefeller.
- This document is proof of Rockefeller's illegal rebates.
- Oh yes I've worked with him for 25 years! He's such an entrepreneur, taking out all competition...
- Henry Rogers, a proud 25 year partner of Rockefeller, unknowingly provides Ida with incriminating documents
- My first part of the 19 part Standard Oil series is ready to be published!
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- Oh good! It will be on the front page of this weeks copy
- Ida decides to write a 19 part series exposing the oil company.
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