Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subterranean world of petroleum, it is the international oilmen who play the blue-chip game. The players must back their gambling spirit with refineries, tankers, filling stations - and millions in hard cash. In this blue-chip game, the jackpot is the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the string of tiny sheikdoms in the rolling sand dunes around the Persian Gulf - Bahrein, Kuwait and Qatar (pronounced gutter...
...wily Mufti had made plenty of it for Britain before and during World War II. They had plotted and carried out antiBritish riots and killings in Palestine a decade ago. Early in 1941, when Britain's war fortunes were at lowest ebb, they had sparked revolt in Iraq. A slippery guerrilla, Fawzi harassed the British for months with desert forays against their vital oil pipelines. When British fortunes turned, the Mufti and Fawzi got away separately to Germany...
...British Jewry, a solution could have been found long ago, but the dangerous influence of American Jewry had been at work and robbed him of any chance of success. Buck-toothed Konni Zilliacus, pro-Soviet Laborite, tossed a charge of "playing power politics," accused Bevin of letting the strategic Iraq-Palestine pipeline † stand in the way of any solution. Reported one M.P.: "Ernie in his most naive way threw up his hands and said, 'We never thought of the pipeline. It never entered our discussion. All we were concerned about was to come to a solution...
...route of the line and its Mediterranean terminus have not yet been determined. The biggest snag in exact planning is troubled Palestine, where Jewish terrorists last week blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline in two places (see FOREIGN NEWS). But Aramco, owned by the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, is so confident of solving-or skirting-such difficulties that it is going ahead full speed. It sent one U.S. expert to Arabia last month to set up the job, will soon send technicians to make final surveys...
...wagon to a restless star too early in life to watch the world revolve . . . from a static point," says Hall. In the 1920s he became director of finance to the Persian Government, lived the life of Reilly in a sumptuous villa, explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...