CSPAN3 1950 Documentary Oil Across Arabia September 20, 2014
World was saudi arabia. In this vast desert without rivers, streams, they were far apart. It was built more than 1000 years ago on a caravan from baghdad. Since those days, they eked out a meager existence in a lost world. On the same desert through the summer and winter of 1947, motor caravans appeared. Camps were set up, the sorts never seen here before. Airplanes on a Reconnaissance Mission roared overhead. They were carrying arabs and americans, surveying the route for a great pipeline, a pipeline along western europe, the middle east, and the stability of the world. Oil is scarce in many ...