Word: khuzistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gordon Rufus Clapp, 57, chairman from 1946 to 1954 of the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1955 president of the Development and Resources Corp., a consulting firm engaged in the Khuzistan project, Iran's version of the TVA; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...principal purpose is to bring fertility back to desolate Khuzistan province, an area the size of Michigan in southwest Iran, near the Persian Gulf.Twenty-five centuries ago. Khuzistan was the fabled fertile granary of the ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening the way for industrialization...
Specifically, his interrogators accused Ebtehaj of signing, without proper authority, a contract with David E. Lilienthal's Development & Resources Corp. for a big irrigation and industrial project in Khuzistan province. Reportedly, the deal had been accepted in principle by the government, but not yet formally approved...
Among the more interesting items: The Persian Gulf Shipping Co., the Bank of Development and Rural Cooperatives, the Royal Publishing Co., the Melli Insurance Co., the Gohestan Sugar Mill, the Fars and Khuzistan Cement plant, scores of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, including the Kolbeh in Teheran, which remains one of the few spots in Iran still offering French strippers, Russian vodka and Caspian caviar, despite the austerity laws imposed earlier this year...