Word: dhahran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King Saud of Saudi Arabia gave no reasons, but his message was plain: as of April 1962, the U.S. would no longer be permitted to use its multimillion-dollar airbase at Dhahran on Saudi Arabia's east
...dusty Dhahran was built by the U.S. at the end of World War II, and improved since then to take the heaviest jets. It has been used by the U.S.A.F. mainly as a refueling and repair base. Under the agreement with the King, no U.S. combat aircraft could be stationed at Dhahran, and many other circumscriptions placed upon use of the base made its value questionable. Particularly nettling was Saudi Arab insistence that the Air Force must not station any Jewish airmen at Dhahran...
Rich Man's Dish. Greenleaf's first big customer was the U.S. Air Force base in Dhahran. Weary of unreliable local merchants, erratic deliveries and low-quality products, the base's procurement officers at first agreed only to a trial contract. The shipments were so prompt-and the eggs so fresh-that the farm got a year's contract for 12,000 dozen monthly...