Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painful dilemma was faced last week by the representative of King George VI in the Province of Alberta, Lieut.-Governor J. C. Bowen. He was expected by Premier William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart to sign, as a formality, three bills just passed by the Legislature and designed to save the now economically shaky "Social Credit" regime in Alberta which pious radiorating Mr. Aberhart set up two years ago with promises to pay every citizen a monthly "dividend" of $25 (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935 et seq.). The first bill would force Alberta newspapers to give as much as one full page...
Started as an experimental program in the Michigan field more than five years ago by The Dow Chemical Co., acidizing has spread to the great Mid-Continent field of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico and on to Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, California-even to Alberta, Canada, and to Old Mexico. Dowell Inc. was formed in 1932 as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Co., to handle this new business and to put it into practice...
...neighboring Dominican Republic which also received ministrations from the U. S. Marines, has kept up on interests but is behind on sinking fund payments. In national credit standing Argentina outranks all Latin America but several Argentine city and provincial issues have defaulted. Like Canada, where the sins of Alberta are not visited on the federal credit, Argentina can now afford to draw the line between local and national credit. The Argentine Republic has been able to launch a refunding program for its dollar bonds, selling 4% issues in the U. S. to pay off the old 6% series...
...conservation in the U. S. was only a fraction of their problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with a well-rounded program to sell to U. S. duck hunters...
Died. Patrick Burns, 81, millionaire Alberta rancher, board chairman of P. Burns & Co., Ltd. (meatpackers) which he sold in 1928 for $15,000,000; in Calgary. In 1878 he tramped 160 miles from Winnipeg to Tanner's Crossing where he staked out a homestead, sold his first two cows to the late railroad-builder Sir William Mackenzie...