million dollars the expanding program requires an increase of permanent personnel to a total of more than twenty five hundred americans and dean powers an arab not just the story of the oil itself but there is another story the story of people for our time the oil job was being done and there was the problem of making life more livable for in spite of the heat it brought in american technology and skilled craftsmanship men planned and worked and cleared and dug and slowly painfully they reared a modern community the desert beside the persian gulf these houses and the offices are completely equipped and air conditioned not those saudi arabia may be in summer it's a healthy climate and children they go to school as they would in america to workers in this new air conditioned office building there's an airport only about forty hours by air from new york by company planes for commercial airline the company has never forgotten that it is a guest in the land of the saudi era and that the best interests of its host must at all times be served today more than twelve thousand arab workers are employed by the company and their they worship in their mosques such as this one a dharan built by the government until quite recently the arabs had little or no opportunity for recreation and sport now they delight  learning new games in the producing fields arab workers have become skilled craftsmen and work side i side with american drillers in fact the company's operations have become one of the great centers for vocational and industrial training in the middle east in the refinery to saudi are others who a few years ago knew only the life of the desert now or skillfully operate complicated american engineers have trained their arab coworkers well and the arabs have been good fuel for workers with aptitude are quickly trained to handle laboratory protein every shipment  product or crude is tested it must meet rigid stuff a vacation quality is controlled as carefully as in refineries in the united states more than two hundred arabs have been with a company ten years or longer the wages paid by the oil company provide new purchasing power for workers and their families and a new prosperity for the region they are paid in riyadh on the currency of saudi arabia employees arab youngsters have expressed great appreciation of the educational opportunities given them and their classmate water was the number one problem on the arabs had to depend on their age old means of transportation the as rapidly as possible the company is getting rid of this type of temporary housing hastily built for the arabs in the early stages of development and replacing it with modern well built quarters l among the more important undertakings for the benefit of the saudi arabs only unconnected with oil operations is a full scale agricultural experiment project that is underway at our cairo this  irrigation canal in which the oil company helped the saudi arab government to build is bringing water to an area of nearly three thousand acres now under intensive cultivation arab farmers assisted by american agriculture experts have been arab industry combined to produce worthwhile crops you agricultural centers are planned by the saudi arab government so that the benefits of modern methods may be spread to other localit lickings sees the oil development as the greatest single means to modernize his country and improve the living standards of his people the navy has said that south the arabian oil is one of its most important strategic sources of suppl men who are working for the economic recovery of europe the middle eastern oil helping them and their labor day in and day out because on the one hand it is keyed perfectly to the goal of self support for the nations of the world and on the other it is making available the vast volumes of petroleum needed to fuel the job of rebuilding the war scarred eastern hemisphere to the american citizen in boston or jacksonville to city or seattle all of this has real importance in his day to day life because large volumes of oil are moving from the western hemisphere mostly south america to fill the growing needs of yours while other south american oil goes to the united states shipments to europe from the middle east have increased since the war ended but are still only a small part of what can come from shipping or oil to europe from the western hemisphere is not only an economic but puts a drain on resources we may need over here however this situation is changing as soon as a stern hemisphere industrializing our neighboring lands to the south and to supplement the suppliers here in the united states not of the pioneering has been done the way is open for other american companies to come into the middle east and join in developing its great resources for the benefit of its people and of the world even negating that principle has been the mutual trust and goodwill that have grown up between the american oil men and the saudi arab government american venture capital is developing new standards of life in an ancient realm where a people with a glorious past are now building a glowing future with their partners from the other side of the world east and west are united in pioneering a new front era of progress serving the interest of the saudi arabs serving the interest of the united states and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise system which from this new front here is pumping into the trade of the world's oil one of the material making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization