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...just finished its compilation last week when Phillips Petroleum's President Kenneth S. Adams announced in Calgary that his company had bought an interest in 4,800,000 acres of oil rights in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In its northern venture, Phillips was following the trail of such giants as Standard Oil (N.J.) and the Texas Co. They and other U.S. firms were turning out 66% of all petroleum products made in Canada...
...announcement came almost two years to the day (Feb. 13, 1947) after Alberta's famed Leduc well had started production. In those two years Alberta's output had risen to 45,000 barrels a day, was just a shade short of meeting the average daily oil requirements (55,000 barrels) of Canada's three prairie provinces...
Several other fields, discovered since Leduc, were coming into production. No less than 85 drilling rigs were punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
...champion liar of the world, for the first time since 1929, was not an American. The Burlington Liars Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...
...only is John Lowe the first Canadian ever to be chosen, but at 49 he is one of the youngest vice chancellors in Oxford's history. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he studied at Toronto's Trinity College, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then taught for twelve years at Trinity before returning to Oxford. Over the years, John Lowe has never changed the quiet pattern of his life, and does not intend to change it now. Says he of his new job: "It's just a question of continuity, just a question of carrying...