Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1903 — Rockefeller and the Bungs. [ARTICLE]

Rockefeller and the Bungs.

In former years John D. Rockefeller’s supervision of Standard Oil company affairs took in even the smallest detail. On one occasion, according to* Ida M. Tarbell in McClure’s, commenting on a monthly statement, liecalled a refiner’s attention to a discrepancy in regard to bungs, article* worth about as much in a refinery aw pins are in a household. “Last month,”' he said to the subordinate official concerned, “you reported on baud 1,110 bungs. Ten thousand were sent you. at the beginning of this month. Yot* have used 9,527 this month. You report 1,012 on hand. What has beeomeof the other 580?” Apparently Mr. Rockefeller’s idea was: Take care of' the bungs and the barrels will takecare of themselves.