Standard Oil an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act, Section II. It ordered Standard to break up into 34 independent companies with different boards of directors, the biggest two of the companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey (which became Exxon) and Standard Oil of New York (which became Mobil). Standard's president, John D. Rockefeller, had long since retired from any management role. But, as he owned a quarter of the shares of the resultant companies, and those share values mostly doubled, he emerged from the dissolution as the richest man in the world. The dissolution had actually propelled Rockefeller's personal
Superior Oil Company Building as the fictional Brent Building in the television series "Perry Mason" (1957 to 1966) wherein Mason's office was located in Suite 904. In the 1987 film Robocop the building can be seen in the 6000 SUX car commercial. Superior Oil Company Building The Superior Oil Company Building, currently The Standard Downtown LA and previously the Bank of California Building, is a 12-story marble-clad highrise building located at 550 S Flower St in Downtown Los Angeles. The office building was refurbished as a hotel in 2002. The marbled-clad Superior Oil Company Building was constructed in 1952 as an office building by