Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily bag limit (four ducks) too quickly, often in the first 15 minutes. In the most northern lakes and sloughs, when the season was ending last week, connoisseurs had been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked, rare duck (20 minutes in a 500° oven) was fashionable with gourmets; some hunters were...
Died. Tom Creighton, 75, co-discoverer of the fabulously rich Canadian Flin Flon mine; after long illness; in Flin Flon, Man. Creighton (and five others) stumbled on the Manitoba lode in 1915, named it after a fictional explorer in a British pulp-magazine thriller. The partners sold out (Creighton got $100,000) and the new owners began digging in 1925, spent $27 million before Flin Flon started paying off ($250 million worth) in gold, copper, silver and zinc...
...provide a steady, four-year market for a maximum of 456 million bushels of wheat a year for five major wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum of $1.98 a bu. at U.S. Atlantic ports...
...present we have three news bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
Gardiner can expect most of Saskatchewan's no, some of British Columbia's 93, and Alberta's 97. He cannot count on Manitoba's 97, which should be solid for Manitoba's own Premier Stuart Garson (said to be Mackenzie King's choice for leader a few years hence). Nor can Gardiner count on the Maritime provinces' 186 votes, which are now destined for a favorite son, Premier Angus Macdonald...