INDEX
- Producers' and Refiners' Company, II, 167.
- Producers' Oil Company, II, 165-167, 178.
- Producers' Protective Association, II, 159-160, 161-165.
- Producers' Union (Association), organized, I, 72; refuses terms to South Improvement Company, 76-77; arouses popular sympathy, 83-84; destroys alliance between South Improvement Company and railways, 90-94; renews contest, no; restricts production, 113-116; alliance with Refiners' Association, 123-124; alliance dissolved, 125; union dissolved, 126; reorganized, 213; plans independent pipe line, 214; brings suits against Pennsylvania R. R., 225; forces indictment of Standard officials, 239; presses suits in court, 242-245; rejects overtures of the Standard Oil Company, 249-251; effects compromise, 255-258, 260.
- Production of oil, I, 10-12, 21, 29-30, 36, 113-115, 121, 154, 209-210; II, 157-158, 194-195.
- Profits, from Standard Oil, II, 200-201, 208, 267-268; see also Prices.
- Pure Oil Company, II, 176-177, 189-190.
Q
- Quick, M. W., II, 164.
- Quinby, George, T, II, 102, 109.
- Quo Warranto Proceedings, I, 225; II, 143-149.
R
- Ramage, S. W., II, 174-176.
- Rapallo, Edward S., II, 79-80.
- Reading R. R., II, 4, 168.
- Rebates, I, 33-34, 47-49, 52, 84-85, 93, 100, 129-130, 131-133, 136-138, 151-153, 232-233, 253-254; II, 66-87.
- Refined Oil Pipe Line, II, 170.
- Refiners' Association, I, 109, 126.
- Rice, George, assails Standard system of underselling, II, 44-49; attacks rebate system, 77-84; seeks liquidation of Standard Oil Trust, 258-259.
- Rogers, H. H., opposes South Improvement Company, I, 89; defends Standard Oil combination, 149-150; before Hepburn Commission, 228-229; purchases Vacuum Oil Works at Rochester, II, 89, 96, 97; indicted for conspiracy, 100-104; 130 negotiates for control of Producers' Oil Company, 179; on the aims of the Standard Oil Company, 193; before Industrial Commission, 225, 252; director Standard Oil, 266.
- Rockefeller, Frank, I, 64, 169-170.
- Rockefeller, John D., childhood and youth, I, 41; enters produce business, 42; enters oil business, 43; organizes Standard Oil Company, 44; plans combination of Cleveland refiners, 51; in the South Improvement Company, 55-56; bears chief obloquy of scheme, 92, 97; makes secret terms for rebate with railways, 100; persists in attempts at oil combination, 104; in the Oil Regions, 104-109; president National Refiners' Association, 109; effects combination with producers, 119-124; breaks alliance, 125; life threatened, 128; begins campaign for refining monopoly, 144-147; organizes Central Association of Refiners, 148-149; war against outside refiners, 154-161; attacks Em-
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