Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordered: two U.S. elevators; by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; for his guestpalace in Jidda. Specifications: deep carpeting, satin-upholstered armchairs (in green & gold) with white satin arm rests. The King expects a visit from Egypt's Farouk...
...destroyer, her taut beauty leashed in Jidda Bay, had dressed for the King of Saudi Arabia...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...
...sacred well in Mecca. In 1933 an Egyptian shipping company bought the 24-year-old, 8,229-ton British passenger steamer British Exhibitor, renamed her Zamzam, redesigned one of her holds into a mosque with accommodations for 600, and set her to carrying Mohammedan pilgrims from Suez to Jidda, the port of Mecca...