Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hope for Safety. There is no country in the Middle East where the stakes are bigger or U.S. involvements as great. For 16 years, a U.S. military mission has been advising and training the Iranian army...
...firms, such as David E. Lilienthal's Development & Resources Corp., are building Iranian dams and highways; more than $1 billion in U.S. economic and military aid has poured into Teheran in the past nine years. Yet an Iranian mission has just asked Washington for an additional loan to balance the badly out of whack Iranian budget, and the military-minded Shah grumbles that he is not getting any supersonic century series jet fighters, even though there are only a handful of Iranian pilots skillful enough to fly the F-86s he already...
Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador...
...sales of $1.8 billion, up 9% from last year.) After Deterding set up his U.S. plants, he made a shrewd peace treaty with Jersey Standard. Anxious to consolidate his gains and disturbed by the worldwide price wars of the 20s, he persuaded Jersey and British Petroleum (then Anglo-Iranian Oil) to join him in the famous "AsIs" cartel agreement that carved out worldwide markets and quotas. Before he retired in 1937, he had built Royal Dutch/Shell into a billion-dollar business...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran and his pretty bride of last December, Queen Farah, took in the sights of the Shatt-al-Arab river port of Khorramshahr from the deck of the Iranian ship Syrus. There was still no official confirmation of Farah's pregnancy (TIME, March 14), but the beribboned Shah was smiling with a secondary gleam...