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More than Enough. For a country that had almost a tenth of her manpower in uniform and fighting overseas, Canada had done more than enough. In the first eleven months of 1944, Dominion exports totaled $3,173,000,000-80% of it war business...
...well was only a few miles from the site of an earlier test, where a Shell crew had drilled down to a record-shattering 12,056 ft. and spent $600,000 without striking oil. But oilmen were sure they had something this time. In Ottawa, Dominion geologists admitted cautiously: the Jumping Pound strike is "extremely important." In Alberta, the Shell Co. had already grabbed up drilling and royalty rights on a reported 73,000 acres near Jumping Pound. Other firms, U.S. and Canadian, were pouncing on whatever they could...
...five days of vigorous debates the conference: 1) committed itself to a sweeping program to socialize land, banking, transportation, building, fuel, power; 2) demanded Dominion status for India, with immediate release of jailed Indian leaders. Tough talkers from the floor frequently overrode cautious advice from the platform...
...knows yet just how good the De Steffany strike really is. His first shipment of tantalite ore (700 lbs., worth about $2,000) left Edmonton last week for the U.S. Government's Metals Reserve Co. Dominion Government geologists, who have surveyed the site, somewhere in a vast area bordering Great Slave Lake, report that "it's tantalite country up there...
...many in the Dominion were aware of it, but last week was an important milestone for Canadians-the third anniversary of rigid, overall price control...