Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to agree on limiting production in Mosul, a newly-opened field in which U. S., British, French and Dutch Shell companies have equal rights...
...chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...
...Before the Chamber of Deputies, last week, was a bill based on the assumption that when certain French oil properties in Mosul are developed the Republic will be able to exist on its own oil. The new bill proposes to assign a "quota" to firms importing foreign oil, restricting them hereafter to a turnover not larger than their average annual import business during the three years prior...
...Tsarol diplomatic underling who has flowered into a notable intrigant in the Bolshevist hothouse. Minister Tewfik is that famed fisher in troubled waters who almost succeeded in embroiling the League of Nations, the World Court and the principal Powers in an inextricable tangle over the issue of Mosul (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925). When two such "classic diplomats" foregather with their secretaries the cause of their journeying to a tryst on the shore of the inhospitable Black Sea may be assumed to be of moment...
...Anglo-Turko-Irak treaty was signed last week, thereby effecting a settlement of the Mosul question along lines closely approximating the League adjudication of the matter (TIME, Dec. 28) though of course actually arrived at by extra-League negotiation. (See INTERNATIONAL, "Mosul...