Trust (business)
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A trust or corporate trust is a large grouping of business interests with significant market power, which may be embodied as a corporation or as a group of corporations that cooperate with one another
The Rockefeller-Morgan Family Tree (1904), which depicts how the largest trusts at the turn of the 20th century were in turn connected to each other
Octopus representing Standard Oil with arms wrapped around U.S. Congress and steel, copper, and shipping industries, and reaching for the White House
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be
Interstate Commerce Act, Page 1
Interstate Commerce Act, Page 2
Stephen Grover Cleveland Portrait