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Standard Oil Part II

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Rockefeller's University of New York

i andrew carnegie did something pretty amazing. He created the american public library system. Rockefeller started founded the university of chicago, and that is exactly what he was going for. And it wasn't just universities, obviously. It's really expensive to build stuff in manhattan, and so it's a lot cheaper to get building materials out there and hire construction crews.

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