Standard Oil was apparently something you were supposed to remember from high school.
That's because until Tuesday, the company was still the subject of a Justice Department decree forcing it to split into dozens of smaller chunks. A decree that came out of former President Theodore Roosevelt's lawsuit against Standard Oil, which his government won 108 years ago, and which your U.S. History class probably implied was the end of the story.
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