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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1947.
"I don't blame Cripps for not liking 'om-you can't oven sit down!"
Why the Americans call
our pipelines spaghetti
TRAŃSJORDANIAN
DESERT. VERY 200 yards for almost 1,200 miles across the desert from Saudi-Arabia
to the Mediterranean there is today, a small pile of freshly painted white stones-the most significant heaps of rubble in the world.
the They mark
projected route of the trans-Arabian pipe- line the longest, largest oil pipeline ever planned.
TURKEY
SYRIA
RAC
✪ I am writing this story slap in the middle of the desert. My home is a super-modern trailer, air- conditioned, with bright tubular lighting. Outside, seven Americans-four of them from Texas-are drinking iced grapefruit juice. If you saw this set-up you would say: “Now I have seen everything. . . .'
by PETER
PLANNED TAPUNG
BERSE
SAUDI ARABIA
DHAHAH
COILFIELDS &
To the engineers the goal is speed, the plague is politics.
One of the reasons the top men in Beirut are keeping qulet just now is that though transit and "right of
agreements have been
made
the Governments of four Arab
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber EVERYBODY is becoming an
"expert" nowadays, and the Idolatry of that lump of dead matter which is called statistics is beautiful to watch.
You cannot say the word coal without being told that if onth twelfth of the miners' worked 17 minutes overtime on alternate Wednesdays, we should get 173,400 extra tons of coal in 83 days, 1 suspect that, in an age when every body seems to mow everything, not body really knows anything.. Question time
ASKED avhether imported parsley
was distributed with or without the stalks, the Minister of Bubble- blowing referred the questioner to a previous answer to a question about the breadth of the hairs on imported gooseberries: In a flash Mrs Whelp was on her feet, to demand whether gooseberries rated as parsley, or
vico versa, for purposes of zonal distribu- tion. There were loud Government cheera and Tory groans when the Minister rolented hotly;
"Even Tory Government distinguished bo- bween
parsley and
alr Towell (Soc., rles.
It
there were alrs on a grape, would be classed us 0 gooseberry? Mr Cullott (Con, Naugham): There are hairs on your head, but it isn't gooseberry or n grape, Volce: Nor pandey. (Oppoaltion cheers, in which the Government joined.)
Laten Crabapple figures
126
Fatty secs it through.
The young raven says no
He experimented with a young raven, which grew considerably after the diet. (Daily paper).
Just to keep the raven quiet, He tried with the choicest diet,
Bread made of glasa, and frozen
Toots,
Rubber fish and wooden fruits. Plastic milk, and, for, a treat, De-articulated meat.
Coazing the bird with "Caw, caw,
caw"
States, Syrin has yet to ratify her Quoth the raven, `""Nevermore!"
Way"
#7
with
own agreement with the Americans. This agreement-typically-in for
DUFFIELD
•
other,
70 years transit rights on payment by Tapline of £62,500 annually, plus an additional sum for Syrian guards to protect the pipe, and the Fights of Syria to purchase 200.000 tons of crude oil at the world's lowest
The coming of Tapline to the Middle
with Eust. is, being hailed something of the same enthusiasm as was the miracle of manna from
The stones have been laid-. almost dead straight for 1.000 of the 1,200 miles-after monu- The Tapline--its length is trailers cost £25,000 mental survey work by a group estimated at 1,140 miles will With us are 17 Arabs and local of American explorers' geolo- have an average diameter of Bedouin, and everywhere we price, gists and engineers.
30 inches. Built in America move we establish an airstrip When the stones are ted of American steel, it will con- for supplies, and the pipeline is substituted, sist of lengths of 30-inch pipe three things will happen:--- travelling nested within 1 The United States will be Number One oil magnate on the Mediterranean..
2 America's biggest commer.
3.
cial enterprise outside hor own shores will be complete.
A new pair of politico
economic dice will have been thrown fairly into the heart of the Arab world.
'Tapline'
2
"Fresh meat has been coming length of 31-inch piping-an to us from the United States, inspired piece of sound sense and we are regularly supplied from the point of view of ship with American groceries." ping space.
#
"Once," sald an American from San Francisco, "we had It will, it is said, bring 300,000 fruit-flavoured ice cream in barrels of crude oil daily to the part of the desent where you Mediterranean seven times could drive 200 miles in any the present intake of Haifa. direction and find nothing."
The overall cost of building
the Tapline is so far put at
Well stocked
heaven,
Try the simple process of dialling
on
Beirut 0244-headquarters of Tup line, Lebanon-and it is a bet of one hour to one minute that all lines will be engaged. Your predecessor the phone will probably be one of tite 15,000 Lebanese who aspire to
with the employment
beneficent "Americanes."
must have been when America's plancers threw railroad tracks, telegraph lines and roadways across vast stretches of the Middle West, so today big, rough, dough off men come bursting from the desert into town, full of good dollars und bad Intentions.
£37.500.000; it is said that the I WAS shown three 16-ton W line will pay for itself nine trailera from which most of THE Trans-Arabian Pipeline months from the day when the the newly completed six months' Company ("Tapline" for first drop of oil starts moving, desert reconnaissance of Tapline short) is the company which
ranean.
As
THE SQUIRREL WHO FELL ON HIS FEET
When the pipe starts building.NUSUAL newcomer to the 1,000 Americans will leave Dhaliran
London Zoo is Cromwell, and strike west, 1,200 will start from Streamlined mechanical Lebanon and strike east.
a built-in store. stacked with
Cashing in
a young grey squirrel.
Cromwell is lucky to be alive (writes. Craven Hill). Born in wood near Cheshunt; Herts, he fell out of his nest-and landed on a dog's back.
The dog.
a spaniel, was being ac- taken for a walk by two children, Stella and Graham Markham, who
aims, by a deadline of October The story of Tapline the bad been made. 7, 1949, to build a pipeline long most important story of Middle enough and large enough to East development today-is a miracles with lathes, air com- bring crude oil from the new strange and astonishing mix. pressors, workshops, radio re- and fabulous oil lands of Saudi- ture of American pioneering, ception and transmitting sets, Arabia through four indepen- of the fight of man against the and cookhouse with electric To accommodate the Tapliner on leave, the cabaret owners have dent Arab States to the Mediter unexplored and unwatered de. stove and
grocery Alled their enbarets with exotic girls, enough drawn mostly from the Balkans sert, of a sober.commercial ven-
of political tinned and bottled food to make and both owner and artist are ex- That outlet has been chosen ture, of months with a consequent saving of the haggling, of a rip-roaring Wild a large London shop look like an perts in handling on oilman's
cumulated pay. Englishwoman's one-day larder. long shipping haul round the Western.
Topline comes at a time when the live in Cromwell-avenue, Cheshunt! - the trailers lay in the midst of
Iraq
Ils: Arabian peninsula and the dues You might well say, "Well, the desert of King Abdullah.
The children took the Petroleum Company, with
squirrel
payable to the Suez Canal.
American, French and Dutch, but home, hoping to be able to rear it. now I have scen everything,"
predominantly British money, is But on their parents' advice ' they The pipe will start at Dhahran the day you fly down in one of
hard at work doubling up its old line cok Cromwell to the Zoo. on the Persian Gulf,
Tapline's chartered planes from
from Kirkuk to Haifa.
Home with the girls Alongside the old 620-miles-long Beirut and see the huge alumi-
12-inch pipe the now 10-inch pipe nium and chromium explora-
Against this background of is taking shape. It is half told, and It will pass with two angle tion trailers-where the Ameri
apparently. fantastic dollar should be completed next year. It and points and with four
engineers or six can surveyors
spending are the solid problems will more than double the intake in and because he must be kept warm, ho has a diot-water bottle and an old Hoita. pumping stations 'nearly 1,000 live slap in the middle
of building the pipeline through ** asked an miles through Saudi-Arabia, nothing, but with every electric. the world's least hospitable employed on the new 30-inch Tap-closely.
American engineer fur-lined glove, in which he nestles traverse 100 miles of Trans- comfort.
country. The toughest part is line what he thought of the Iraqi Each night the baby aquirrel is jordan. 85 miles of Syria, and "These trailers are our bead- the western, where vast Petroleum Company's coming 16- taken home by each of the girl
Because of quarters," an American en- stretches of lava country impede. political unrest, it will skirt, gineur explains. "We sleep out the digging of even a three-feet honest prido and contempt; "Spag the supervisor. "But he is
moment. Then he replied, with platants in turn. "Cromwell is a late-born baby," said Miss Gliggins, but never enter, Palestine. sido under the stars. The deep ditch to house the pipe. hetti,"
well and we hope to rear him.”
It will emerge near Sidon on the shores of Lebanon.
25 of Lebanon.
NANCY
Homemade Hour Glass
LOOK WHAT: I'VE GOT:
OH,
BOY
AN HOUR GLASS -- THE SAND IN IT
TELLS TIMË LIKE
A CLOCK
I WISH I HAD ONE OF THOSE THINGS
of
Today they are moving complete with supplies to the hinterland of Saudi-Arabia. The cost is £138 a day.
NANCY!
inch
pipa. He
By Ernie Bashmiller
YES, MA'M
DID YOU PUT SAND "IN MY COFFEE-
MAKER ?
YES
looked
ut
me a
Now Cromweli is living in A cardboard box at the Children's Zoo
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