Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DESPITE British pressure on oil purchasing nations, the National Iranian Oil Co. has signed 25 sales contracts with Italian, Dutch, Japanese, German, Indian and Pakistani companies. Iran expects to export 1,000,000 tons of oil this year. By next year, Iran hopes to boost its sales to 8,000,000 tons of crude and refined, to fetch $70 million...
...Japan her first petroleum shipment (15,300 long tons of diesel oil and automobile gasoline) from Premier Mossadegh's nationalized oilfields. At a special introductory price averaging 5.35^ a gallon, he had quite a bargain. Waiting to receive Skipper Nitta at the Kawasaki dock was a cluster of Iranian traders...
Twelve miles away in Tokyo's district court, Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. tried to block the oil sale. At issue: the question whether the oil, legally purchased from the government of Iran, was actually "stolen" from the British in the expropriation. The British lost the first round of a similar case in Italy in March, when a tribunal in Venice refused to confiscate a cargo of Iranian...
...Many come for a year with the express purpose of picking up additional training to enable them to take charge of public health projects in their home counties. Dr. John Gordon reported visiting with top health men in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon all graduates of the Harvard school. The Iranian Minister of Health and Child Welfare is an alumnus. With some pride the school quietly reminds itself that it has sent graduates to head five of the ten American schools of Public Health...
...more relieved than American Independent Oil Co.'s President Ralph K. Davies, 55, the man who raised the $30 million for the gamble. With nine other independent producers, Davies formed Aminoil in 1947 to give independents, as well as majors, a Middle East concession. Gulf and Anglo-Iranian had sewed up Kuwait; Aramco (jointly owned by Standard of California, Texas, Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum) had a grip on Saudi Arabia. But nobody had the "no man's land" between-the Neutral Zone jointly run by the Sheiks of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Davies leased the Sheik...