Word: sidon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
...four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard of California, the Texas Co. and Socony-Vacuum. It took Hull almost three years to finish Tapline. To throw his line from the oilfields at Abqaiq near the Persian Gulf across four Arab lands to the Sidon terminus, Hull had to organize supply lines halfway around the world...
Short Cut. This week, Arabian oil began filling the 13 huge storage tanks (capacity 188,000 barrels each) at Sidon. Early next month, when the pipeline and storage tanks are completely filled with 7,000,000 barrels of oil (more than all the oil pumped daily from all U.S. wells), tankers will begin loading at Sidon to take the oil to the thirsty refineries of the fighting West...