Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start, Al Mukhtar Min (Selections From) has reached its wartime circulation ceiling-125,000 copies. With adequate paper supplies, printing equipment and transport facilities, Reader's Digest men think it might have reached to 200,000 in a few more months. In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia the natives swamp their dealers for this newest Digest foreign venture...
Both sides also have case histories to cite. In Saudi Arabia, U.S. companies got hold of major interests between 1933 and 1939, despite much higher bids on the part of other world powers. They were successful precisely because their interests were obviously nonpolitical. But the Ickes side argues that most nations of importance have long had a Government-private-enterprise combine in the world oil fields (Great Britain, The Netherlands...
Princes and Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
...Empire. Next coincidence of the week was the news leak that the U.S. was dickering to buy a piece of Arabia's fabulous oil resources...
Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...