Rockefeller's Oil Empire

9th March 2015 25 mins Season 1 Episode 10

A twenty-four year old bookkeeper, John D Rockefeller, is about to bet every penny he has on a fledgling upstart industry. If the accountant is wrong about the budding oil industry, the era of the automobile might not take off.

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