Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nash's new look came from a new designer, Italy's Pinin Farina, who has made his name as a high-priced custom builder of auto bodies for Indian rajas, Persian shahs, etc. All such cars, no matter whether the chassis are Rolls-Royces, Alfa-Romeos, Fiats, etc., are usually known as "Farinas." Pudgy, nervous Designer Farina, who has 650 workers in his Turin plant, always looks as if he had just crawled out from under a car (as he usually has). Unlike most auto designers, who work with clay mockups, Farina works with sheet aluminum, which...
Qatar (pop. 25,000), to the south of Kuwait, marks the next stage of the evolution of a sand-blown sheik into a millionaire. Seventeen years ago, Qatar (rhymes with butter) was no more than a sunburned thumb-120 miles long and 50 wide-sticking out into the Persian Gulf. Periodically, howling shamal winds blistered the low, monotonous plateau. Doha, seat of government, was a mud village, and the only sign of industry was a few palm groves by the sea and a few fishing boats. The only foreigners were American missionaries...
Bahrein, just 100 minutes by plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab...
...Belgrave, an officer in the British Camel Corps in the Sudan in World War I, answered a blind personal ad in the London Times in 1925. The job was to advise a sheik in Bahrein. Belgrave took it, married a childhood friend, and set out with her for the Persian Gulf. He found Bahrein living on an income of something less than $500,000 a year. Sheiks at that time were not in the habit of sharing the wealth. But Belgrave talked the Sheik into electricity for the capital, public health measures, and an inter-island causeway...
...Birthday bargain binge, which was started by the Mode men's shop in 1919. Now almost all stores take part. Like Mickey Margoles, other Washingtonians had waited in nightlong vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...