Gilbert Holland Montague: The Later History of the Standard Oil Company. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Band 17, Nr. 2, 1903, ISSN 0033-5533, S. 293–325. doi: 10.2307/1883667 (jstor.org). „The organization of the Standard ‚Alliance,‘ which in 1879 controlled the transportation of oil by rail and by pipeline and produced 95 percent of the refined oil of the country was an informal substitute for the modern trust. The Standard Alliance included the Standard Oil Company of Cleveland, the Standard Company of Pittsburg, the Acme Oil Company of New York (located at Titusville), the Imperial Oil Company at Oil City, the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia, the Camden Company of Maryland, Charles Pratt & Co. of New York, J. A. Bostwick & Co., Sone & Fleming Manufacturing Company, Warden, Frew & Co. of Philadelphia, and the Baltimore United Oil Company of Baltimore.“
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Hardy Kettlitz: Die Hugo Awards 1985–2000. Memoranda, 2016, ISBN 978-3-948616-25-0 (google.de): „Der Studioboss Maroon setzt den Privatdetektiv Eddie Valiant auf Rogers Ehefrau Jessica Rabbit an, um herauszufinden, ob sie Roger hintergeht. Valiant erwischt Jessica zusammen mit dem Industriellen Marvin Acme und fotografiert die beiden. Als Roger davon erfährt, dreht er durch. Einen Tag später wird Acme ermordet, und der Verdacht fällt natürlich auf Roger.“
Sears, Roebuck and Company (Hrsg.): Catalog. Sears, Roebuck, 1922 (google.de).
Gilbert Holland Montague: The Later History of the Standard Oil Company. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Band 17, Nr. 2, 1903, ISSN 0033-5533, S. 293–325. doi: 10.2307/1883667 (jstor.org). „The organization of the Standard ‚Alliance,‘ which in 1879 controlled the transportation of oil by rail and by pipeline and produced 95 percent of the refined oil of the country was an informal substitute for the modern trust. The Standard Alliance included the Standard Oil Company of Cleveland, the Standard Company of Pittsburg, the Acme Oil Company of New York (located at Titusville), the Imperial Oil Company at Oil City, the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia, the Camden Company of Maryland, Charles Pratt & Co. of New York, J. A. Bostwick & Co., Sone & Fleming Manufacturing Company, Warden, Frew & Co. of Philadelphia, and the Baltimore United Oil Company of Baltimore.“
Where Did the Looney Tunes “Acme Corporation” Come From? 10. Januar 2013, abgerufen am 16. Januar 2024 (amerikanisches Englisch): „Because in the yellow pages if you looked, say, under drugstores, you'd find the first one would be Acme Drugs. Why? Because ‚ac‘ was about as high as you could go.“
