FINAL WARNING: Financial Background
and chauffeurs. They also maintain over 100 residences in all parts of
the world. Besides investments held in personal trusts, the family also
holds stock in numerous companies.Some of their major holdings: Chase Manhattan Bank, American
Telephone & Telegraph (AT & T), Eastman Kodak, IBM, General
Electric, Texas Instruments, Xerox, Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing, Monsanto Chemical, Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa),
Armour, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, DuPont, General Motors,
International Paper, Polaroid, Sears and Roebuck, Standard Oil of
California (Chevron), Standard Oil of New York (Mobil), Standard Oil of
Indiana, U.S. Steel, International Basic Economy Corp., International
Harvester, Quaker Oats, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Itek, Federated
Department Stores, Walgreen Stores, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline,
Consolidated Edison, Anaconda Copper Co., General Foods, Pan
American World Airways, Colgate-Palmolive, E. I. du Pont de Nemours,
W. R. Grace, Inc., Corning Glass Works, Owens Corning Fiberglass,
Cummins Engine, Hewlett-Packard, R. R. Donnelly and Son, Dow
Chemical, Teledyne, Inc., Warner-Lambert, Westinghouse, International
Telephone and Telegraph (IT & T), Motorola, S. S. Kresge, Texaco,
National Cash Register, Avon, American Home Products, Delta
Airlines, Braniff Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, and
Burlington Industries.The financial core of the family fortune included the Chase Manhattan
Bank, Citicorp (which grew out of the Rockefeller-controlled First
National City Bank), the Chemical Bank of New York, First National
Bank of Chicago, Metropolitan Equitable, and New York Mutual Life
Insurance. By the 1970’s, Rockefeller-controlled banks accounted for
about 25% of all assets of the 50 largest commercial banks in the
country, and about 30% of all assets of the 50 largest life insurance
companies.The Chase Manhattan Bank, however, remains the supreme symbol of
Rockefeller domination. Founded in 1877 by John Thompson, the
Chase National Bank was named after Salmon P. Chase (Lincoln’s
Secretary of Treasury). It was taken over by the Rockefellers in a
merger with their Equitable Trust Co., whose President was Winthrop
Aldrich, son of Sen. Nelson Aldrich. In 1955, it merged with the Bank of
Manhattan (which had been controlled by Warburg; and Kuhn, Loeb