Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Locked beneath the history-laden sands of Saudi Arabia lies the world's last known great oil pool. The right to exploit it belongs to Arabian-American Oil Co., owned by The Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California. But Arabian-American, which has done comparatively little drilling, saw its future production limited by a lack of distribution facilities. On the other hand, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. have plenty of outlets in Europe, but little oil to supply them...
...Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience in peacetime, the pipelines are a vital necessity in wartime. Britain has no intention of jeopardizing them...
...With Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Belgium, Turkey and Egypt...
...same goes for recording the anecdote that the King of Saudi Arabia told to one of our correspondents who interviewed him, or the terrible time one of our photographers had getting gas for his car in China. He finally had to settle for alcohol distilled from rice which, he was happy to inform F.Y.I., was sometimes redistilled, flavored with rock candy and served as a beverage at the local officers' club...
...Confirmed the nominations of Careermen 1) Joseph Flack as Ambassador to Bolivia, 2) J. Rives Child as Minister to Saudi Arabia, 3) Edwin F. Stanton as Minister to Siam...