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...gave us Premier Manning," said an Alberta farmwife, "and neither the Liberals, the CCF nor the devil can take him away from us." Last week, with the devil presumably abstaining, Bible Teacher Ernest C. Manning's Social Credit administration was swept into power for the fifth time in a row. With counting almost completed, Manning's forces held at least 49 of the legislature's 61 seats...
Foreman Amberger was talking about the $82 million Trans Mountain Pipe Line now being driven through the Rocky Mountains to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast. For 700 miles, from Edmonton west to Vancouver, the pipeline will follow the famed Yellowhead Pass route through the mountains, where the Canadian National Railways line was built 40 years ago, at a cost of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. The C.N.R. still ranks as one of the great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains...
Waiting. In Edmonton, Alberta, a jobhunter advertised in the Edmonton Journal: "Back East they say, 'Go West, young man.' Well, I'm here. Now what...
...pools may be, but Amerada, Shell, Texaco and others have already brought in wells as far as 115 miles apart. Since oil has also been found across the Canadian border in Saskatchewan, oilmen suspect that the Williston pool extends there, think they may find fields rivaling Alberta's great Leduc and Redwater fields...
...eleven-state Rocky Mountain Region, which was flooded by prehistoric seas that once covered most of the U.S. and laid down the oil-bearing strata along its shore and on its bottom. One Denver geologist talks sweepingly of "a great underground river of oil flowing from Northern Alberta to the Rio Grande." More than $130 million was spent in the area last year tapping the "river." Refineries are being expanded and new ones built; new pipelines are fanning across the mountains...