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Standard Oil Part I

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Rockefeller's Job Day

The story goes that he pounds the pavement for six weeks. They all reject him, and he just starts back up at the top. He becomes basic, like the best bookkeeper that history has seen before or since. John betrayed a special affinity for counting and an almost mystic faith in numbers. The numbers in the books are money. It's the divine, eto god given path to get as much of it as possible.

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