Grant Segall

Rockefeller and Co. turned oil into local gold

Oil is the world’s biggest business and one of its most combustible. It has drawn all sorts of eccentrics, from H.L. “Boy” Hunt, gambling host and bigamist, to Armand Hammer, Kremlin confidante and bull semen salesman. It has fueled inflation, recession, pollution, scandal and war.

Early on, oil made modern Cleveland.

July 30, 2005

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