Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, but no free schools for their 80,000 people. The sheikdoms-6,000 square miles of low, arid barrens fringing the southern approach to the Persian Gulf-look as though God here carried out a great scorched-earth policy. They typify the Persian Gulf without oil -nothing but sand, rock-bottom Arabs and hard-living sheiks...
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...
...palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...
...disintegration of this granite-faced man, whose steely strength and craftiness unified a sprawled sand ocean of 900,000 square miles and its 6,000,000 warriorlike people, has brought uncertainty to the country. The old man now seldom rises from the wheelchair which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave him after Ibn Saud admired Roosevelt's. He sometimes embarrasses visitors by falling asleep in mid-conversation...
...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...