Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil (TIME, Feb. 22), the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered...
...John C. Snyder, newly appointed Dean of the School, heads the group of University specialists who will work with the Aramco medical staff in Dhahram, Saudi Arabia. Aramco, sponsor of the project, will contribute funds at the rate of $100,000 annually...
...Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed of bigots south of the Mason-Dixon line. R. N. WHITE Rafha, Saudi Arabia...
...atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...
...mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...