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…showed last 75 words of 816 total…appreciate him and his good deeds a lot more than they did in the past days. By 1900, The Standard Oil Company controlled more than ninety percent of the refined oil in the U.S. Rockefeller being the worlds wealthiest man at the time, reached his fortune of about nine-hundred million dollars. Other oil refining companies went downhill fast. Eventually, in 1911, the Supreme Court decided to break up the Standard Oil Company into smaller, competing companies.