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Similar offers went to Caltex of California and Britain's Burmah-Shell. In return the three outfits would promise to train Indian technicians, employ as much Indian labor as possible, and stimulate Indian industries. By 1955 the companies hope to have three oil refineries worth $100 million, producing two to three million tons of refined products a day. A compact advantageous to both parties, it is also welcome as the first major investment of private U.S. capital in India since India won its independence...
...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...
...intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel laid in Burmah, but this masque or scenario for a "fairy play." Mrs. Toon guarded the manuscript. For Love of the King...
...China, the way leads to Pekin, Nankau Pass, the Old Wall of China, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will...
...Joseph H. Odell-Dutton ($2.50). Joseph H. Odell, now head of great philanthropic interests in Delaware, identified with the DuPonts, wrote a number of intimate, introspective letters to his friends. Too shy to mail them, he has published them. Religion,† the English countryside, literature and dreams, flowering Japan, Burmah, the East, are his themes...