Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Item: Secretary Ickes' announcement of the U.S. pipeline in Arabia, with no preliminary warning to the British-who have a more-than-somewhat interest in Middle East...
...Saud, Guardian of the Holy Places, King of Saudi Arabia, left his palace at Riyadh for a gazelle-&-bustard shoot in the flinty wilderness to the north. With him he took falcons, Ford convertibles and 2,000 attendants. At the green oasis of Hafar-el-Ats the hunting party pitched its tents, unrolled its rugs, settled down for a fat taste of the patriarchal monarch's favorite pastime...
...protests from Iraq were followed by similar protests from the British-dominated governments of Egypt, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. Alarmed, the U.S. military suddenly decided that the resolution was no matter for Congressional debate, but touched on high military policy...
...supplies that any private company wouldhave to give it anyway. He also alleged that, "if my memory serves me correctly," oil delivered by a 1,200-mile pipeline would cost more in the long run than oil routed by tanker over the 3,300-mile run around Arabia and through the Suez Canal...
...restless Saudi Arabia sits the brooding figure of Ibn Saud, dominant leader of the Moslem world, while the U.S. undertakes for the first time to challenge British dominance in Middle Eastern oil (TIME...