Word: aden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side of the world building a 100,000-bbl.-a-day oil refinery in Aden for the Anglo-Iranian...
...dusty Aden, a British protectorate, the British won the first legal round in their battle to blockade Iran's oil. A supreme court judge held that Iran's "nationalization" of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. was actually "confiscation," ordered the $40,000 oil cargo aboard the blockade-running Rose Mary (TIME, June 30) turned over to Anglo-Iranian...
...favorite activity. Seven out of ten have traveled outside their own countries during the past year, and a similar number plan such travel for the coming year. A few letters described more unusual hobbies, such as one from Alfred H. Marsack, a British senior political officer in the Aden Protectorate. In the past year, Marsack went to India, Ceylon, Malaya and Borneo to get color pictures of "fish, orchids, reptiles and headhunters for lecture purposes." He wrote: "I cannot get a daily newspaper where I am; if I could, it would not replace TIME . . . I always look forward to enjoying...
Reminded that the last tanker captain to attempt to run the British blockade wound up in a British court at Aden (TIME, June 30), Jones snapped: "If I sent any tankers, you can be sure the same thing wouldn't happen ... If you mean that I will be sued by the British and Anglo-Iranian, I might, but I will not lose much sleep over that." Had the U.S. State Department approved his trip? Jones replied: "Well, they didn't disapprove...
...spring an Italian operator took a shipment of Iranian oil (TIME, June 30). Sadika held her breath while the Italian tanker tried to get through to Naples, practically wept when the ship's owner capitulated to the British (who treat Iranian oil as contraband) and put in at Aden. Swallowing her tears, Sadika Garagozlou then & there decided to buck the British...