Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westerners idolize your Colonel T. E. 'Lawrence of Arabia' " observed in Cairo last week the Sheik Mustapha El Maraghi, rector of the Egyptian capital's 1,000-year-old Moslem University. "You credit Lawrence entirely with the success of the revolt of the Arabs against the Turks. You Westerners do not know that not even a hundred Lawrences could have aroused the Arabs against their Caliph, the Turkish Sultan, had it not been for the almost unlimited amount of gold sovereigns Lawrence had at his disposal. There is very little, if anything, a Bedouin would...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, 2 vols.- Charles M. Doughty-Random House ($15). Beautifully produced, unabridged edition of the travel classic, with the 5,000-word introduction by T. E. Lawrence...
With 10,000 agents in the U. S. and a sprinkling in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Arabia, Fireman's Fund is now sixth in volume of premiums among all U. S. insurance companies. Premium income on its underwritings has risen from $12,658,000 in 1933 to $16,326,000 in 1936. Fire insurance is now its smallest field, ocean marine its largest. It writes all forms of insurance except life. Mr. Levison's successor as president of the com-pany is tall, bald Yaleman Charles R. Page. 59, who has been...
Texaco already is involved in Eastern markets through deals made last year with Standard Oil of California by which Texaco acquired a half interest in Standard's oil fields on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf, Arabia and the Dutch East Indies. Standard got outlet for its oil, Texaco a source of supply for its distribution system East of Suez, in East Africa, South Africa, India, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan. The combination of these two big U. S. companies now looms as the third big petroleum group outside the U. S., inferior only to Royal...
...Warner Bros.). Instead of Arabia or Becky Sharp, Producer Hal Wallis chose the more realistic subject of the Northwest woods and the logging industry for this Technicolor. Cast, technical crew, Director William Keighley and Red Spierling, logging superintendent of the Crown Willamette Paper Co., whose crew set a world's record in 1931 by getting out 1,662,000 ft. of lumber in a single day, spent two months at Longview, Wash., making the outdoor sequences. The result, as background of a story loosely adapted from James Oliver Curwood's 1922 novel, is the most spectacular investigation...