Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAUDI ARABIA Dry Desert
...Powerful Ethiopian. Since Ethiopia has neither general elections nor a free press, many Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting...
Dorothy Thompson, syndicated newspaper columnist and author, and Feres Malouf, Boston attorney, will take the negative. Miss Thompson has recently returned from a trip through Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. She is the president and initiator of the American Friends of the Middle East...
...financial houses, Union Securities Corp. and White, Weld & Co., agreed to manage the underwriting of the entire $87 million. To build the pipeline, Glasco had lined up Burt Hull, builder of both the Big and the Little Inch and the 1,068-mi.-long line across the desert of Saudi Arabia, named him the company's chairman of the board...
...Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the loose-jointed league was formed in 1945 to promote the political federation of the Middle East-and to enable the British to deal with a single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn...