Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Bill Foran, reconnaissance geologist for Standard Oil of New Jersey, bobbed up the other night after four years in Iraq...
...when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch dealer-built the ark to carry pitch to Babylon just as the Arabs do today...
...gone along to have a look at the Iraq situation. The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands. A trek of hundreds of British trucks, armored cars and mechanized guns, and thousands of Indian and Arab levies set out from the Mediterranean coast for Middle Iraq, to relieve the besieged airport of Habbania. The last 400 miles was across waterless, roadless wastes...
...British were not overly sanguine. They thought El-Gailani's troops might withdraw to the north of Iraq, to the area which makes hot and barren Iraq so worthy of a scrap: the oil fields around Mosul. Last week London reported that strong forces of German airborne troops, complemented with bombers and fighters, had made their way across Syria and were well established in the oil-bearing area...
...appeared last week that the airborne Germans who were rushing across Syria to Iraq were not particularly solicitous for their puppet revolt; that was serving its purpose of worrying the British very well unsupported. The Germans headed straight...