Word: iran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tallest current tale of the tall comes from Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia). There, one Siah-Khan, at 18, is reported to be almost 12 ft. tall. His arms are supposed to be so long that he must wrap an arm once around his head to put food in his mouth...
Capping its spectacular catch in Afghanistan, where it got the oil rights to every foot of that Shah's territory (TIME, Jan. 11), the Iran deal, if finally confirmed, will be the reward of nearly three years' patient angling...
Granted to Amiranian Oil Co., a Seaboard subsidiary, the concession is reported to be good for 60 years, must be reduced in 15 years to 100,000 sq. mi. by the elimination of areas without oil. To carry oil out of Afghanistan and Iran, another Seaboard subsidiary called Amiranian Pipe Line...
received permission from Reza Shah Pahlavi (see p. 20) to build what may turn out to be the world's longest pipe line, through Afghanistan and Iran to the Persian Gulf. In size, if not in richness, Seaboard's new Middle Eastern territories will be superior even to those of Britain's great Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Both the Afghan and Iranian concessions are the outgrowth of conversations in 1933 between Charles Calmer Hart, then U. S. Minister to Iran, and his good friend Ogden Livingston Mills, outgoing Secretary of the Treasury. After Mr. Hart resigned...
Over tow hundred foreign students registered for instruction in the University this year, making up one of the largest foreign delegations in its history. Representatives from as widely spread spots as Iran and Siam and such small countries as Luxembourg and Liechtenstein are notable...