Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western ways and techniques. They are learning rapidly that their misery is unnecessary, their lot unjust. This means that Iran is not only poverty-stricken and disease-ridden; it is also in a ferment of insecurity that runs from the peasant in his windowless hovel to the young Shah in his palace. Everybody knows that the future will be very different, but nobody has any confidence that the immediate future will be better for him. Unless economic improvement is speeded up unless the people get a real political stake in their country, Communism will reap in Iran what Western influence...
Overseas Consultants was formed by eleven of the top U.S. engineering and management firms. For the Iranian government it prepared a five-volume report for the economic regeneration of the country (TIME, Oct. 24, 1949). The Shah's government engaged O.C.I. to put the seven-year plan into effect. This plan was widely and justly acclaimed as one of the most important postwar moves of U.S. business in support of American foreign policy...
...wholehearted or effective in backing O.C.I. The Iranians were disappointed when the O.C.I. contract failed to grease the wheels for a large loan from the World Bank. The British resented O.C.I.'s presence in Iran, and negotiations over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s payments to the Shah's government became deadlocked. Since most of the money for the seven-year plan was supposed to come from these payments, the plan never got going...
...formidable gift that His Britannic Majesty's ambassador brought to His Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Persia, that day in 1804. The ambassador had carried it over thousands of miles, from England, around the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Persian Gulf to Teheran. But the gift was apparently worth the bother. The Shah was so delighted with it that he gave himself a new title in its honor: "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Actually, by the time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from...