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17 Advertising for Quaker Corn Flakes, 1961. The last line reads: This
is the food of the modern age, enjoy it!
In granting security of tenure to large segments of the population, land
provisions were instrumental in integrating Manama’s shanty towns into
the emerging modern city in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly al-Hurah
and al-Dawawdah in the east and al-Zarari‘a in the west, including
Garandor. In the agricultural belt in the south and southwest, the Land
Department had to come to terms with the claims of the peasantry who
continued to contest rights of ownership against the claims of the Al
