Word: shiraz
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...first of five projects to help modernize Persia under a seven-year plan got under way. The first project, costing $6,000,000, was started by Manhattan's Kennedy-Van Saun Manufacturing & Engineering Corp. with the shipment of equipment for a 200-ton-a-day cement plant at Shiraz. Around the plant will be built a model city, complete with hospitals, electric lights...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
...bedside carpet is important and must be gratifying to the bare feet. Persians, Kermans and Kashans lack the necessary thickness of pile. A subdued Shiraz would fulfil most people's requirements, though leptoforms [delicate people] may require something with a more stimulating pattern, say a Tabriz...
...conventional figure in rug designs, from Shiraz to Sears, Roebuck, is the tadpole-shaped fistprint of a moppet. This-according to Persian legend-is why: a rugmaker one day reprimanded his infant son for playing recklessly among his dye pots. The child, incensed, brought down his dripping little fist on a nearby rug. Regarding the curly imprint of the tot's clenched hand, the artist gave the Persian version...
...place, now called Istakhr, is near Shiraz inland from the Persian Gulf. Darius planed the face of a mountain for grey building stone. Against the mountain base he built a terraced platform, 1,000 ft. wide, a third of a mile long and upon it started to build palaces. His descendants continued construction-Nerxes 485-465 B. C.), Artaxerxes...