Word: saud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordered: two U.S. elevators; by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia; for his guestpalace in Jidda. Specifications: deep carpeting, satin-upholstered armchairs (in green & gold) with white satin arm rests. The King expects a visit from Egypt's Farouk...
Iraq's excitable, blustering Fadhil Jamali likes to scold Americans about Zionism: "The trouble with you Americans is that you think it is a case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs...
...said, King Ibn Saud demanded from Arabian American Oil (Aramco) $6,000,000 a year for five years because his oil royalties had fallen off. Aramco could not meet this demand, so Moffett took the problem to President Roosevelt, under whom he had served as the New Deal's first housing administrator. Moffett suggested that the U.S. give Ibn Saud the $6,000,000 for five years. Aramco would pay it off by delivery of oil to the U.S. Navy. The deal fell through. But soon after, said Moffett (and a letter from Jesse Jones, then Federal Loan chief...
...Texas Co. First, he called Moffett's accusations of overcharging the Navy "absolutely false." Then Rodgers threw a Sunday punch. Moffett, he implied, was firing off his charges because he was trying to get control of Arabian oil himself. A year ago, Moffett had tried to persuade Ibn Saud to cancel Aramco's concession, give it to Moffett & friends. If Ibn Saud did, Moffett promised to double his royalties...
...this Jimmy Moffett answered, in effect-so what? He had tried to make a deal with Ibn Saud. But this action, he said, was entirely within his rights...