Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some boys who had brought a batch of snakes back from camp. He has had some failures, too. He had no solution for the woman who wrote: "Sheriff coming to foreclose tomorrow. Please send $4,000 in cash," and he was unable to finance a trip to the Canadian wilds for a would-be Davy Crockett who wanted to kill himself...
Canada's booming uranium industry has leveled off sharply in the past month, in the wake of rumors out of Ottawa and Washington (which buys most of Canada's uranium) that the market might be approaching the saturation point and that the Canadian government was about to stop buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content...
...Howe flash the warning? Howe himself did not say, and tight-lipped U.S. Atomic Energy Commission officials in Washington would add nothing. But William Bennett, head of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., hinted that Ottawa had received word from Washington putting a definite ceiling on the amount of Canadian uranium the U.S. will contract...
...obviously unaware of it. Almost simultaneously with Howe's policy statement, the government revealed the details of Canada's first atomic power station, an $11 million plant that was described as a model for many more in the future. The plant will be fueled exclusively with Canadian uranium...
...biggest (circ. 5,650,000), picture magazine in the world, LIFE uses only one in 50 of the half-million pictures its editors look at every year. For the one in 50, LIFE photographers often go to extraordinary lengths. Samples: ¶ On the frozen fastness of the Canadian arctic, LIFE Photographer Fritz Goro and Reporter James Goode worked for seven weeks in silent isolation, photographing a corner of the world few men had ever seen before, where the weather extremes far surpass the farthest reaches of the arctic. Their radio could receive messages but could not send. Movement...