Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Tennyson's Brook, a Persian election goes on forever, and sees, in its course, a varied scene. In April 1946, Prime Minister Ahmad Gavam first promised to hold an immediate election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads...
Priority for Scuttling. With U.S. support, wily Gavam was not now so hard-pressed to please the Russians, and no longer so eager to sponsor the Russian oil agreement before a new Majlis. Troublesome tribesmen, who roam over two-thirds of Persia's barren land, gave him his latest excuse to string out the elections. They look with suspicion on the central Government and army (present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern...
...bleed to death. He decided that he would die in the end anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland. He scratched a note to his wife on the fender: "Don't forget I love...
...bunkhouse, 70 men lounged on the benches or in the double-decker bunks, reading pulp magazines by the dull oil lamps. The rafters over the hot stoves were festooned with drying socks. As soon as the poker players cleared the cards and money from the table, the minister set up his small silver cross and two candles and began to talk...
...trouble getting the $60,000 down, even though pari-mutuel betting is illegal in Texas. On race day, a mixed lot of Mexicans, gaily-shirted cowpokes and bigtime cattle and oil men walked around the race grounds clutching $100 bills and hunting bettors. ''Two hundred even on Princess". . . . "A hundred says Shue Fly daylights Princess" (meaning Shue Fly would win with daylight between her and her rival). It was so hot-110°-that men lined up in the shade of telephone poles and women held wet towels over their heads. By lunch time, even without pari-mutuel...