Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue and flirtation. Emir Fawaz el Sha'lan was said to have squandered his tribe's treasury on Marga. Even indefatigable King Ibn Saud was reported attentive. Marga soon amassed a personal fortune of some...
...City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For weeks Marga was held captive in the mountains. Then one day her sheik was found poisoned. The Moslems promptly found Marga guilty and ordered her stoned to death. Only the intervention of Ibn Saud saved her life...
...Help for Ibn Saud. In 1933, California Standard won its concession from Saudi Arabia's aging (67) King Ibn Saud; three years later it brought in Texas Co. with the idea of selling Arabian oil in the Far East. Now the only oil company in Saudi Arabia, Arabian-American owns rights on 278,000,000 acres, an area almost three times the size of California. Estimated oil potential of these acres: up to 20 billion bbls. Current production is now 200,000 bbls. a day (up from 18,000 two years ago), and the Far Eastern market...
...from South America and other foreign properties. But since the depletion of U.S. reserves in the war (the Western Hemisphere supplied 90% of the Allies' needs), the Government has looked sourly on heavy export of oil from the Americas. One other prod to the deal was given by Ibn Saud. As oil and pilgrimages to Mecca are his chief sources of income, he has long awaited increased exploitation of his lands to boost his royalties of 22? a bbl. Shrewd old Ibn Saud also knows that more production means more American capital in Saudi Arabia and more work...
...Denied, in a letter to Ibn Saud, any U.S. hostility to Arab aspirations, reaffirmed his conviction that 100,000 Jews should be admitted to Palestine immediately...