Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...push into pioneer land, where technology is taking on nature to create a new frontier unlike anything ever seen before (TIME cover, Sept. 30, 1966). With vast areas as yet unexplored, only a fraction of the returns are in. The potash finds in Saskatchewan and oil reserves in Alberta are estimated to be equal to all those known in the rest of the world...
Macks, the senior captain from Ontario, Small, a junior from Ontario, and Devaney, a sophomore from Alberta, were united only four games ago but played like they had been linemates for life. Their combination is responsible for Brown's resurgence after losing three of its first four Ivy games, and is the reason Bruins fans are eagerly awaiting Cornell's visit next Saturday...
Those White House Calls. Brisk demand has given fresh urgency to some projects for new oil sources. Next fall in Alberta, a $240 million plant built by a Sun Oil Co. Canadian subsidiary will begin extracting 45,000 bbl. of oil a day from the Athabasca tar sands, which contain 369 billion bbl. of recoverable oil. Interest is also reviving in Colorado's vast deposits of oil shale. Recently, some producers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas raised basic crude-qil prices 80 to $3,08 per bbl.-closer to the point at which extraction of oil from shale could...
...been forced to drive off the road to avoid a moose and have had their leather two-suiter eaten by Eskimos. These very special experiences belong to Ed Ogle, an Indiana-born, New Orleans-trained newsman who for the past nine years has been our bureau chief in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and who traveled some 10,000 miles over his sprawling territory to do the major reporting for this week's cover story...
Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...