Rumored, incomplete, the following mergers last week made news.
Oil. As it must to all combinations in restraint of trade, divorce came, in 1911, to 33 units of the great Standard Oil trust. Since then, various units have reputedly flirted and dickered, one with another. But there have been no remarriages, strictly forbidden by U. S. Supreme Court decree.
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard...
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