Word: makki
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...bucket-seated C-47, its U.S. Air Force insignia still showing faintly through a poor Iranian paint job, settled to the landing strip at Masjid-i-Sulaiman last week and rolled up to the hangar line. Out stepped Hussein Makki, firebrand of Iran's three-man Oil Liquidation Board, for a look at what an oilfield is like...
Crowds yelled "Ahy Makki" ("Oh, you Makki"). A man with a butcher knife slit the throat of a trussed-up bull to show that Makki was truly welcome. Makki, briskly stepping over a pool of blood, got into a baby blue Oldsmobile convertible. Drums began to pound and blood crimsoned the car's whitewall tires...
Next Premier? At "Discovery Well"* Makki stood silent for a moment, then went on to inspect the plant. Workers rushed forward, fell down before him to kiss his feet. Makki raised them up, making a fine distinction: he didn't want his feet kissed but he let them kiss his hands...
...month ago, Makki was sitting behind a rickety desk in a shabby room in downtown Teheran. Now he was taking over the billion-dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., including the great Abadan refinery, which daily takes 500,000 barrels of crude oil at one end, and from the other pours gasoline, asphalt, kerosene at the rate of 2½ tank cars a minute. Makki is not an engineer but a politician, and busy letting everyone know that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with...
Next: Harriman? To give the Iranians time to think things over, the British had cut Abadan's output to 25% of capacity, thus postponing still further the day when the huge plant will have to shut down for lack of storage facilities. But Mossadeq, Makki & Co. were in no mood to be reasonable. At The Hague, the International Court of Justice had just handed down an interim decision on Britain's appeal against nationalization. Ten of the twelve sitting judges recommended a truce: Britain and Iran should set up a joint board to supervise operation of the oilfields...