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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 249745, member: 33&quot;]SOCONY was short for Standard Oil Co. of New York. It was formed in 1911 when the original &quot;big&quot; Standard Oil was determined by the U.S. Supreme Court to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act (basically, it was a huge corporation engaging in unfair business practices due to being much larger than its competition).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/may-15-1911-supreme-court-orders-standard-oil-to-be-broken-up/?mcubz=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/may-15-1911-supreme-court-orders-standard-oil-to-be-broken-up/?mcubz=1" rel="nofollow">https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/may-15-1911-supreme-court-orders-standard-oil-to-be-broken-up/?mcubz=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And SOCONY did merge with Vacuum in 1931. So what everybody is saying regarding this sign or poster being from the 1920s appears likely. As has been mentions already, Socony-Vacuum later became Mobil.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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