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Hair-Conditioned. In Calgary, Alberta, Barber Nat Marbach had his garage insulated, with nearly a year's savings of his customers' shorn locks...
...inland route will be safe from shelling, if the Japs should raid the Pacific Coast; will ride over level country much of the way; and it passes through the oil fields of Alberta, handy to gasoline...
...survivors of the crew of the U-37, a Nazi submarine sunk by air bombs in Canadian waters, run a marathon across Canada (Hudson Bay to Alberta). One (Eric Portman) goes the distance; the others are killed or captured along the way. The survivor becomes, prematurely, the darling of the Nazi radio ("one Nazi against 11,000,000 Canadians"); a lone Canadian Army private (Mr. Massey), fed up with guarding the Chippawa Canal, polishes the Nazi off in democratic fashion (fists) before he can reach the sanctuary of U.S. soil...
Social Credit, as preached by pallid Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, never really got started in Alberta. Most of its legislation was vetoed by the Dominion Government or turned down by the courts. But for six years Bible Bill maintained himself in office by an expert mixture of patronage, oratory and extraordinary legislation. One Aberhart law pettishly forbade the courts to declare any Social Credit legislation unconstitutional...
With beautiful simplicity, the Debt Adjustment Act had set up an adjustment board, had provided that no resident of Alberta needed to pay a debt unless the board agreed. This the board would hardly have done, since Social Creditors feel about debt the way Christian Scientists feel about pain. To wheat-poor, debt-ridden Alberta farmers this had sounded too good to be true. Last week they found...