January/February 1969
Discovery! The Story Of Aramco Then: Chapter 7: Dammam No. 7
Written by Wallace Stegner
Illustrated by Don Thompson

As water freezing in small crevices can crack a boulder, so the isolation of Arabia was broken by a series of small expansions: the geologists with their generators and air conditioning, the drillers with their machinery. And—on the eve of the crucial moment in the long search—the wives, with the habits of another world.

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