Word: burmah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the then ruling Shah a concession covering four-fifths of all Persia. The ignorant Shah was glad indeed to get $20,000 cash. Berlin's Deutsche Bank, Standard Oil and other powers soon were fighting for the privilege of buying D'Arcy's amazing concession. Burmah Oil Co. finally bagged it for Britain in 1909 and set it up as Anglo-Persian. Six days after Britain declared war in 1914 Winston Churchill jammed a bill through Parliament to buy control of Anglo-Persian for His Majesty's Government, so that His Majesty's ships...