Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scored." Last fall the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association reached into the Far West and picked British Columbia's Penticton Vs to take a crack at regaining the championship. Canadians decided that the title was all but home. In the four years since they were organized, the Vs had developed into one of the slickest teams...
Residents of Penticton (pop. 14,000) grow fruit to earn their living, but they live for hockey. On road trips the team is ferried by volunteer drivers in private cars; a women's auxiliary washes the players' jerseys and darns their socks. During the playoffs for the Canadian championship last May, when an elderly lady collapsed of a heart attack, she surprised no one with her last words: "Go see who scored that goal!" The entire team attended her funeral...
...third line of Noyes, Tom Worthen, and Derek Nicholas again held its own against opposing first and second trios and should prove to be espable when needed against the Canadian players on the Western teams...
...Hirshhorn, who got his start as a Wall Street market tipster and trader, got out of the market with $4,000,000 just before the 1929 crash. For more than 20 years he has commuted between Manhattan and Toronto, has set up a string of more than two dozen Canadian mining and oil companies. In 1950 New York State's Attorney General Goldstein warned investors against buying shares in American-Canadian Uranium Co., which was backed by Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines. Ltd., a Hirshhorn interest (TIME, Dec. 4, 1950), because the promoters were making too much...
Hirshhorn's new $207 million deal with the Canadian government amounts to a cost-plus contract. Unlike most other producing uranium properties in Canada, which are so remote that supplies must be flown in at tremendous cost, the Algom property has access to good transportation. Miners guess it will cost Hirshhorn less than $10 a ton to get the Algom ore out, and the government is reported to be paying between $18 and $20 a ton for it. Estimated profit to Algom under the contract: $100 million. And that, says Hirshhorn, is only the beginning: "We're thinking...