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Word: trucial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...TRUCIAL SHEIKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Four hundred miles down the coast live the seven Trucial Sheiks. There are fishtail Cadillacs for them, but no free schools for their 80,000 people. The sheikdoms-6,000 square miles of low, arid barrens fringing the southern approach to the Persian Gulf-look as though God here carried out a great scorched-earth policy. They typify the Persian Gulf without oil -nothing but sand, rock-bottom Arabs and hard-living sheiks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...Trucial Sheiks (socalled because they signed truces with the British to stop piracy) are hopeful. A subsidiary of Iraq Petroleum (which is American, British, French and Dutch owned) is prospecting the area for oil, meanwhile paying the Sheiks a small subsidy. So far the wells have been dry, but the drillers-a hardbitten, windburned American crew who live in primitive tent camps, drinking distilled water, eating out of cans-are convinced that next year fortune will strike the sheikdoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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