Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over big-wheeler deals in English, French, Arabic, German, Spanish or Italian. He has plenty to talk about. Besides his $300 million interest in Getty Oil, he controls 64½% of Tidewater Oil*($460 million worth), 59% of Skelly Oil (worth $335 million). He also has .417% of the Iranian Oil Consortium (worth about $8,000,000) and Oklahoma's $15 million Spartan Aircraft Co., $10 million worth of real estate from Acapulco to Manhattan's plush Hotel Pierre...
Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, will become the first Aga Khan Professor of Iranian at Harvard University...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday that the Aga Khan Professorship, recently established by the Moslem religious leader of the Ismaili community, with the intention of "preserving and transmitting to future generations knowledge of the rich heritage of the Iranian past," will become effective on July...
...Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else in the world, where such a single foreign interest so dominates a nation's economy, is there less rancor between government and company, between host and paying guest...
...holding the job of Undersecretary will succeed him. It was hardly comforting to think of Herbert Hoover, Jr., the man Herter will replace next month, as Secretary of State. Hoover's blunders on several important occasions have obscured the achievement which won him his job: successfully ending the Iranian oil dispute...