Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1911 — STANDARD OIL DIVIDED [ARTICLE]

STANDARD OIL DIVIDED

Big Monopoly Is Split into Thirty-Five Different Concerns. New York, Nov. 17. —Reorganization plans for the Standard Oil, ordered by the United States supreme court, have been made public and by Dec. 1 the world famous oil trust will be a thing of the past. The plans anoouneed call for thirtyfive companies to carry on the business of the trust, each company to he separate and distinct and with no common directors or no operations in common. The reorganization plan, worked out after many weeks by attorneys for the oil trust, is expected to comply in every rfespect with the mandate of the supreme court.