Word: bahrein
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Other members of the sterling areaitain: it prohibited imports of oil from the huge Bahrein refinery built by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., whose products in the past have been considered by Britain as coming from the sterling area. Altogether, U.S. refineries faced a possible drop of 100,000 barrels a day in sales...
...tough, highly competitive oil industry, James Andrew Moffett, 60, is a man who can take care of himself in the clinches. And he likes a grudge fight. A onetime senior vice president of Standard Oil (N.J.), later board chairman of the Bahrein Petroleum Co., Ltd., Moffett stirred up such a fight last January...
Sharp-tempered Jimmy Moffett filed suit for $6,000,000 against Arabian American Oil Co. (owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas Co., which also own Bahrein Petroleum), holder of the vast oil concessions in Saudi Arabia (TIME, March 24). This sum, said he, was due him for political chores done while he was with Bahrein Petroleum. When a Senate committee perked up its ears at this charge, Jimmy Moffett gladly told his story...
...chip game. The players must back their gambling spirit with refineries, tankers, filling stations - and millions in hard cash. In this blue-chip game, the jackpot is the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the string of tiny sheikdoms in the rolling sand dunes around the Persian Gulf - Bahrein, Kuwait and Qatar (pronounced gutter...
...German succeeded north of Rostov, he might still have the power to crash down through the Caucasus into the Allies' last local source of oil, the fields of Iraq, Persia, Bahrein...