Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabia, the concessions were wangled from wily old Ibn Saud by Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco), jointly owned by Standard Oil Co. of California and the Texas...
...Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels a day to 500,000, replenishing the depleted treasury of Ibn Saud by 23? for every barrel...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia finished his cross-country tour of the U.S., prepared to head for home this week after a month's visit. Detroit, where Prince & party occupied two entire floors of a hotel, would not soon forget him. He saw the auto capital's numerous postwar wonders, but what he really wanted, he said firmly, was one of those good old 1936 Pierce-Arrows. His father's-very roomy and comfortable-was wearing...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, eagle-faced eldest of Ibn Saud's 40-odd sons, got an eagle's-eye view of Manhattan. In the city on a coast-to-coast tour, the Prince played the tourist to the hilt-hustled straight from the Pennsylvania Railroad Station to the Empire State Building for an educational gape. Manhattan gaped, too: with the Prince was a retinue of protectors hung with cartridge belts, golden swords, and jeweled daggers...
...Majesty, Abdullah Ibn Hussein, British-crowned monarch of Trans-Jordan, his son, Emir Naif, and a suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...