Oil Industry Development
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- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
One 1889 newspaper article showcased Rockefeller as America’s richest man, with a net worth of $150 million—an estimate he regarded as much too high, pegging forty to sixty million as the correct range. (That would translate into between $635 and $950 million in contemporary money.) Another article clocked his income pouring in at $750 an hour.
chapter: CHAPTER 17 - Captains of Erudition