Word: sidon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
...four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard of California, the Texas Co. and Socony-Vacuum. It took Hull almost three years to finish Tapline. To throw his line from the oilfields at Abqaiq near the Persian Gulf across four Arab lands to the Sidon terminus, Hull had to organize supply lines halfway around the world...