Word: teheran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister to France. Mirza Abolghas-sem Nadjm "for an explanation," and withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which opens...
Chuckling-diplomats wondered whether he too would be summoned to Teheran for an explanation of this affront to the dignity of Iran...
...Reflecting company estimates of a potential reserve of at least 100,000,-ooo bbl. in its new field, Barnsdall stock in six weeks was moved up from $20 to $34 per share. C In ancient Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia), word leaked out that Seaboard Oil Co. had acquired exploration and exploitation rights to 180,000 sq. mi. of Iranian territory...
About a year and a half aw this coalition approached Seaboard. formed the exploration companies, gave Seaboard a 51% interest. Mr. Hart then began to palaver in Kabul and Teheran. Biggest stockholder in Seaboard Oil (32%) is Texas Corp. Last week Texaco filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the issuance of 1,557,000 shares of common stock, to be offered to Texas stockholders at about $40 a share on the basis of one new share for each six held. Market price of Texas common last week was $52. Of the estimated $62,000.000 proceeds from...
...place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran's charg...