Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years a bandit chieftain named Dadshah has ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead...
...sort of Middle Eastern stability that might be won ten years hence, the U.S. is encouraging schemes to free Western Europe from its overwhelming dependence on the Suez Canal. Last week leaders of the oil industry met in London to draw plans for a $500 million pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Turkey, and to examine other ways of getting around Nasser. The world's shipyards are working at capacity building supertankers to carry Persian Gulf oil around Africa at no greater cost per barrel than smaller tankers going through Nasser's nationalized...
From under the white sands along the Persian Gulf two new oil wells gushed up 4,400 bbl. a day last week. The twin strike, in the Wafra field of the 50-mile-square Neutral Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, meant more than just a new source of oil. For Wafra, it pushed output above 50,000 bbl. a day and increased estimated reserves to more than 5 billion bbl. For a tall, stoop-shouldered American named Jean Paul Getty, it was a multimillion-dollar payoff on a daring gamble...
...indicate that his gamble would pay. That year the zone produced 7,559 bbl. of crude. In 1954 it zoomed to 2,977,094 bbl., in 1955 to 4,351,741 bbl., and by last year Getty Oil Co. alone was transporting 25,000 bbl. a day to the Persian Gulf through its 10¾-in. pipeline...
Some of his many books on the culture of the Middle East include "Iran," a widely used textbook; an English translation of "The Mediaeval History of Bukhara"; "The Persian History of Nishapur"; and "The History of the Nation of Archers," which was written in collaboration with R. P. Blake...