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...month ago, Makki was sitting behind a rickety desk in a shabby room in downtown Teheran. Now he was taking over the billion-dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., including the great Abadan refinery, which daily takes 500,000 barrels of crude oil at one end, and from the other pours gasoline, asphalt, kerosene at the rate of 2½ tank cars a minute. Makki is not an engineer but a politician, and busy letting everyone know that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with...
...morning last week, Ahmad Matin Daftary, Premier Mohammed Mossadeq's son-in-law and chief strategist of the Majlis temporary Oil Nationalization Board, loped along the corridors of Anglo-Iranian's low, yellow brick headquarters in Khorramshahr, twelve miles from Abadan. An associate, Nassir Gholi Ardalan, hurried behind. Beaming, Daftary said: "We're moving into our new offices, upstairs." They marched into the rooms of General Manager Eric Drake, who had gone to Basra, Iraq, 40 miles away, because he feared arrest on trumped-up "sabotage" charges. In Drake's office, they confronted Assistant General Manager...
Hardly were the Iranians seated before they began to see that it took more than a desk to manage a company. All of Anglo-Iranian's 2,700 British employees-the top technical staff-crisply rejected the Iranian appeal to stay on at the same wages and work for the new Iranian National...
...Crates Were Packed. In Abadan, the last planeloads of British women & children flew out. The word to evacuate would probably come soon. In London, Basil R. Jackson, Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman, said: "They're just going to have to learn from bitter experience that they can't handle it [operating the fields and the refinery]." Abadan was already slowed down to 45% of its 500,000-bbl. daily capacity. Another 20 days, even of reduced output, and the tanks would be full and the great shutdown would come. Reluctant to finally slam the door, the British...
Since then he has become the most extraordinary Yank Oxford has ever had -a sort of one-man Anglo-American alliance, whose interests have flitted back & forth across the Atlantic like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...