Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kurds' perennial desire for independence, but their new desire for Oil. Year ago Djevet Eyoub. Turkish engineer who had spent 20 years in Texas oil fields, went prospecting along the Turko-Irak frontier. He found unmistakable traces of oil on Turkish territory not far from the British-owned Mosul oil fields of Irak. It is not impossible that Turkish wells on the new oil fields might. if driven, drain Mosul wells dry.* Succinct was a message from Angora last week...
...Though the British mandated Kingdom of Irak has been promised complete independence in 1932, in the event of her scheduled admission to the League of Nations in that year. British interests will continue, under concessions, to develop Mosul's major oil fields to control dependent airports-a vital point in the British-India Airway...