Word: persia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began setting them up in Washington's National Press Club...
...replace him, the State Department picked another career diplomat: George V. Allen, 45, onetime chief of the department's Middle Eastern Affairs division. As U.S. ambassador to Persia from 1946 to 1948, George Allen had served in another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations...
...quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
Bulldozers & Textiles. Persia will build or renovate 7,122 miles of roads, buying bulldozers, dump trucks, motor graders and portable rock crushers. Later, she will be in the market for other communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network...
...achieve her plan, Persia proposes to spend a total of $650 million, an estimated 35% to 40% of which will be spent abroad. The bulk of the development cash will come from Persian government royalties from the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Iranian last year paid Persia some $35 million in royalties, but a new pipeline to be built from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to Tripoli in Lebanon, under a deal between Anglo-Iranian, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, is expected to let Anglo-Iranian boost output and raise royalties to as much as $50 million next...