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...Premier, emerged from hiding into Teheran's riotous streets to begin a race. He had exactly $45 million worth of time-a gift from the U.S.-to get Iran back into oil production and onto a stable basis. Zahedi popped the $45 million into the Bank Melli as Account No. 30824 and set to work...
...afternoon last week the Shah climbed into his No. 2 Rolls-Royce, set out for Teheran's Bank Melli Hospital. As his car drove through the gates, loving subjects performed a ceremonial operation: they deftly sliced the heads off two sheep and tossed them under the wheels, which (according to old Iranian custom) would bring good luck...
...Robert H. Hinckley, who this March, as tsar of U. S. commercial aviation, celebrated its first year with no airline fatalities, a record which helped him sell jittery Congressmen on a bigger civilian training program for 1940-41. Bob Hinckley took his first airplane ride with pioneer German aviatrix Melli Beese when he was touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines and begin preaching another: the future of aviation. To Mr. Hinckley, a "formidable and salutary...