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Standard Oil Kerosene - The Story of Standard Oil
In the early 18 eighties, standard decides to run the same play book that they've run with the railroads with the grocery stores in america. They say, hey, it's expensive for you to ah set up and give shelf space and everything to all these cans re all, you know, non standardized of standard oil kerosene in your stores. From now on, all standard kerosene needs to be sold in standard canisters. Then we set the terms on and we fix the price, and we tell you where you can put it inyour stores. In mississippi, they had a particular problem with this. They send out a letter to all the grocers