Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capping its spectacular catch in Afghanistan, where it got the oil rights to every foot of that Shah's territory (TIME, Jan. 11), the Iran deal, if finally confirmed, will be the reward of nearly three years' patient angling...
Granted to Amiranian Oil Co., a Seaboard subsidiary, the concession is reported to be good for 60 years, must be reduced in 15 years to 100,000 sq. mi. by the elimination of areas without oil. To carry oil out of Afghanistan and Iran, another Seaboard subsidiary called Amiranian Pipe Line...
received permission from Reza Shah Pahlavi (see p. 20) to build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned...
...company. And whether or not Afghanistan suddenly disclosed "probably the greatest untapped oil reserves in the world," as the Associated Press reported from London, Seaboard had agreed to try to build up production in ten years to the considerable flow...
Seaboard's cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand...