Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood on the tarmac of Teheran's Mehrabad airport one evening last week. At ten-minute intervals, planes glided in to land. None of them brought the news the Shah was waiting to hear: word of his missing brother, 32-year-old Prince Ali Reza, heir to the Iranian throne...
...never arrived in Teheran. The Shah's birthday party was called off, and 25 Iranian-piloted Thunderbolts, assisted by eight U.S. Air Force planes, began a methodical sweep over the desolate Turkoman steppe. On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran. The peasants went to the spot and there found the bodies of the prince and his two companions...
...Shah's father, a onetime army sergeant who seized the throne. The Shah himself has no sons. His five half brothers are the sons of princesses of the old rival Kajar dynasty, and are constitutionally barred from royal succession. Parliament can, however, shut its eyes and grant Iranian "quality" to one of the half brothers, making him eligible for the throne...
...ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL Co., Ltd., which lost most of its production capacity in Iran, will celebrate its comeback by a 400% stock dividend to shareholders. The company has made up most of its loss by expansion around the world (TIME, March 9, 1953) ; under the new Iranian agreement, it will also get $70 million in compensation from Iran and another $600 million from the seven other oil companies that are helping to operate the Iranian oil industry...
...played a major role (with Herbert Hoover Jr.) in settling the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. His D.S.A. citation acknowledges that Henderson is one of the free world's ablest diplomats and most courageous Cold Warriors...