Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific Western Oil Corp.'s J. Paul Getty closed his big deal with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the oil concession in the King's half of the "neutral zone" between Arabia and Kuwait on the Persian Gulf (TIME, Feb. 21). Getty expects to start drilling in a few months, and will develop the zone with the American Independent...
Between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, by the Persian Gulf, lies the "neutral zone"-a condominium of Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Kuwait's Sheik Sir Ahmad al Jabir-al-Subah. There, last week, business looked cracking good...
...State Department support to win concessions in two potentially oil-rich, but undeveloped Middle East territories: 1) Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; and 2) the Persian Gulf "neutral zone" jointly owned by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Ahmad ibn as Sabbah of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabbah last week was already dickering with bidders for the neutral-zone concession...
...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...
...desert and in the fetid coastal town of Kuwait, the young giant grew up with one consuming ambition: to reconquer the lands lost by his embittered father and restore the family to its seat at Riyadh, the Sauds' ancestral city in central Arabia...