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Rockefeller, John D., childhood and youth, I, 41; enters produce business, 42; enters oil business, 43; organizes Standard Oil Company, 44; plans combination of Cleveland refiners, 51; in the South Improvement Company, 55-56; bears chief obloquy of scheme, 92, 97; makes secret terms for rebate with railways, 100; persists in attempts at oil combination, 104; in the Oil Regions, 104-109; president National Refiners' Association, 109; effects combination with producers, 119-124; breaks alliance, 125; life threatened, 128; begins campaign for refining monopoly, 144-147; organizes Central Association of Refiners, 148-149; war against outside refiners, 154-161; attacks Em-