Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routing tankers 11,254 nautical miles around the Cape of Good Hope from Persian Gulf ports to Western Europe. The trip would require more than 30 days, as against the 12-or 13-day journey through the Suez and Mediterranean...
Africa, Iran and Iraq. Some of these recruits to slavery are captured or kidnaped in their native villages; others are lured to Mecca on alleged pilgrimages, then sold in the slave market of the Holy City. Most have to be ferried into Arabia across the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. If the British Navy, under the proposed "piracy" clause, resumed its vigorous, pre-World War I slave patrol in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this lucrative traffic would be severely hampered...
SHIPPING COSTS are zooming because of Middle East crisis. Rates for dry cargo and oil are up as much as 200% in past year (to record $19.62 per ton for oil from Persian Gulf to United Kingdom). Ship prices are also following trend, with standard T-2 tankers currently pegged at $3 million v. $2.2 million as late as last April. 1957 PACKARD will be produced despite reports that Studebaker-Packard and Rescuer Curtiss-Wright would drop next year's model. In January, company will start turning out either face-lifted 1956 model or redesigned and upgraded Studebaker bearing...
...attitude of the British government and Executioner Harding leaves only one answer, an implacable fight for freedom." Disdainfully, E.O.K.A.'s "Dighenis the Leader" (whom the British identify as former Greek army Colonel George Grivas) echoed the classic answer that Leonidas the Spartan reportedly made to Xerxes and his Persian hordes at Thermopylae: "Molon lave" ("Come...
Firing off a reply, Belgrave discovered that the post was that of adviser to Sheik Hamed bin Issa al Khalifah of Bahrein, a 213-square-mile British protectorate composed of five islands lying off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf. Charles Belgrave had never heard of Bahrein, but the pay was enough to get married...