Word: elburz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build the Persians a railway so they could ship something else. Last week, eleven years after the League commission's visit, 490 miles of the Trans-Iranian Railway (Persia's name officially became Iran in 1935) was completed-a winding, climbing engineering masterpiece through the Elburz Mountains between Bandar Shah and Bandar Shahpur. Iran's soldier-dictator, Reza Shah Pahlavi, had already ordered his gold, silver & rosewood private...
...King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls of big, soft gold pieces stamped with his hard, sharp profile...
Riding back next day over the Elburz Mountains, the "King of Kings" forged ahead of his suite, who found a snowstorm in Firuzkuh Pass too much for them. Pushing on to Teheran with a small picked escort Reza Shah Pahlevi stamped into his Palace, ordered every Persian newspaper to print what had been suppressed. To Britons it seemed impossible that the horsy Persian would act thus unless he had potent backing. Whose? The London Press bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form...