Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same goes for recording the anecdote that the King of Saudi Arabia told to one of our correspondents who interviewed him, or the terrible time one of our photographers had getting gas for his car in China. He finally had to settle for alcohol distilled from rice which, he was happy to inform F.Y.I., was sometimes redistilled, flavored with rock candy and served as a beverage at the local officers' club...
...Molotov-Ribbentrop talks that preceded the 1941 German attack, a blueprint of Moscow's plans. Molotov wanted the Baltic states, all of Poland she then occupied, slices of Finland, eastern Rumania, complete control of the Dardanelles, a free hand in Iran and Iraq, and enough of Arabia to dominate the Persian Gulf. Ribbentrop thought Russia asked too much...
...Envy. The Imam's intense isolationism had at last been overcome by his avarice. A king who pays his chief of staff $153 month and his soldiers $2 could scarcely ignore the new $4 to $6 million airfield at Dhahran in the rival neighboring kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from...
...delegates are not afraid to applaud their favorites, and Bevin is one of them. There were cheers when he said Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...
First he tried it out on some traveling companions, 27 females (two planeloads) of the royal harem. Four U.S. flyers (who had stayed in Arabia to train the native crew) goggled as brawny slaves lugged the ladies' luggage aboard. But when worldly Prince Feisal, performing a filial chore, shepherded the passengers into the cabin, the crewmen looked the other way. They had been carefully briefed: to stare at the veiled and giggling travelers was to invite death...