Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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T.W.A. has also built up its own modest, but potentially important, system of "Point Four," under which it provides management know-how for airlines in Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia (it also owns 40% of Italy's Linee Aeree Italiane. 5½% of Philippine Air Lines, 15½% of National Greek Airlines). At home, T.W.A.'s once-demoralized management is a smoothly functioning team. Says Damon, grinning: "We've got a wonderful bunch of shrunken empires...
Bullard, whose 40 years in the diplomatic service includes work in Russia, Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia, is currently director of Middle Eastern studies at Oxford University...
...sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...
...jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught him to drink. Several months later the King issued a teetotalitarian edict-forbidding the importation of all intoxicating liquors into Saudi Arabia...
...globe-girdling as Pan American itself, I.H.C. has also signed contracts for hotels in such other widely separated spots as Tokyo and Saudi Arabia. Though it had to start in the red, ambitious I.H.C. looks ahead a few years to a $100 million-a-year hotel business-a healthy sideline for a $188 million-a-year airline...