Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Middle East Correspondent James Bell has toured the Persian Gulf area for the past five weeks, observing the revolution. His report...
...only thing small about Kuwait (rhymes with do right) is its size-6,000 square miles of overheated, waterless, treeless land at the northern end of the Persian Gulf. Everything else about it is fantastically...
...Kuwait's loading dock at Mena al Ahmadi, which thrusts nearly a mile out into the Persian Gulf, is the world's largest...
...royalty cut in the world. He probably has the biggest annual income of any man on earth. All this has come to a land no bigger than New Jersey, which was still living meanly at the close of World War II in an economy based mainly on pearling and Gulf shipping. The men responsible for this revolution-in a land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait Oil Co. (a joint operation of Gulf Oil Corp. and Britain's Anglo-Iranian). Typical of the Americans are the Charles Jacksons...
Four hundred miles down the coast live the seven Trucial Sheiks. There are fishtail Cadillacs for them, but no free schools for their 80,000 people. The sheikdoms-6,000 square miles of low, arid barrens fringing the southern approach to the Persian Gulf-look as though God here carried out a great scorched-earth policy. They typify the Persian Gulf without oil -nothing but sand, rock-bottom Arabs and hard-living sheiks...