Word: persia
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...event overshadowing others in the Far East occurred last week at Teheran, when the Government of Persia extended for a sixth year the contract retaining Dr. Arthur Chester Millspaugh as Administrator-General of Persian Finance...
...past five years every toman ($1) spent by the Government of Persia has required the authorization of Dr. Millspaugh, who must even dole out to "The King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlavi, that monarch's monthly allowance for his army and himself, 750,000 tomans...
...army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual protectorate in Persia, all these make control over Egypt doubly important to Great Britain...
...Balkans-the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall be absorbed...
...start by a few inches. Over Constantinople they were reported to be doing well. On leaving the Persian Gulf engine trouble developed. They were forced to descend into lukewarm waters, wrecking their Hawker-Horsley some 3,200 miles from home. Soon a ship rescued them, took them to Abadan, Persia...