Word: qatar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tourists in Geneva hotels began getting get-out notices more than three weeks ago (exception: the Emir of oil-drenched Qatar and his white-draped retinue), and a flood of nontourists saturated the town. The Second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (full title) which started last week, is probably the biggest scientific confab ever. Besides the 5,000 scientists from 67 countries, and 900 accredited correspondents, came uncounted thousands of atomic businessmen, many with wives or camp followers. Geneva has 6,500 hotel beds, but it was so jammed that some of the delegates...
...hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over barren sand and hope for oil strikes...
...down, and the oil company's air-conditioning system would not work because the water warmed too quickly in the condenser. Abadan's two ice plants (capacity: 70 tons a day) could not meet the demand as smugglers shipped heavy loads out to oil-rich Kuwait and Qatar. In ten days, Iran's heat wave killed 158 people...
Enter the ubiquitous Iraq Petroleum Co., through a subsidiary, called Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd. It dragged in equipment, pitched tents, and started exploring for oil. By the time war broke out in 1939, Qatar was ready to begin production. The British ordered the wells jammed, to prevent their capture and use by the enemy; Qatar went back to sleep...
...crude. Last year total production reached 18.5 million barrels. Last week 57-year-old Sheik Ali, a dull but honest fellow, was getting an average $1,360 a day in royalties. As soon as the British can find a suitable teacher, they promise to open the first school in Qatar's history. P.D.Q. has built a network of roads, and now the big new Cadillacs and Buicks in Doha have some place to go. The Eastern Bank has opened a branch. The Sheik's royalty will shortly be increased when he finishes negotiating a new 50-50 deal...