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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two fields, plus strikes in the surrounding area, add up to one of the major North American oil developments in recent years. Alberta's known reserves are generally estimated at a billion barrels, its potential as high as five billion. If it should prove to be five billion, Alberta might eventually rival west Texas, today the biggest oil-producing area in North America...
...Herbert L. Spencer, president since 1945, had seen the university double in size, guided it through its centenary, launched a drive intended to bring the $2,000,000 endowment to $10,000,000 and add nine handsome new buildings to the campus. Last March, however, he resigned his post to head the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York, and the trustees had been combing a list of men to succeed...
...items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list: a Roy Rogers drinking glass...
...maybe even $100,000,000." Elizabeth herself makes only $1,000 a week, which is raisins to the plums she should soon be getting. Next year her salary goes up to $1,500 under the present contract, which has three years to run. Bonuses may add to her take...
...astronomical $303.7 million, 46% above 1948. The reason: as steel became plentiful this year, G.M. was able for the first time since the war to push its production throttle to the floor board. G.M. intended to keep it there: next week, Chevrolet's Flint plant will add an extra shift to step up production from 480 cars a day to 680. In 1949's second quarter, G.M. had already broken all previous quarterly production records by turning out 792,346 cars and trucks...