Oil for Dollars: Saudi Arabia (1948)

Standard Oil Co California putting the ‘interest of the United States’ forward as the place that needs oil resources for a ‘world that moves on wheels’. How it ‘saved Saudi Arabia from monotony and poverty’ by paying Sheiks to drill there for the vast oil resources. It provided a ‘richer life for the Saudi Arab’ taking him away from his desert oasis and giving him a job, as a joint venture. The search and extraction of oil in Saudi Arabia.