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"...Every step taken was necessary in business if (Standard Oil) was to be properly developed, and only through such successive steps and by such an industrial combination is AMerica today enabled to utilize the bounty which its land ours forth, and to furnish the world with the best and cheapest light ever known, receiving in return therefore from foreign lands nearly $50,000,000 per year, most of which is distributed in payment of American labor." -John D. Rockerfeller, president of Standard Oil, testimony before the Industrial Commission of the U.S. CongressIn this quote, Rockerfeller states that America can prosper most only by the development of what such as Standard Oil?

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