Word: manitoba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since a band of Scottish settlers discovered in 1812 that early-maturing varieties of wheat from their native highlands would grow and ripen in Manitoba's short summers, the wheat crop has made the difference between prosperity or hard times for Canada's three prairie provinces. Last week, with bins and elevators brimming from the fourth fine harvest in five years, the threat of acute financial crisis hung incongruously over the prairies. Reason: the inability of Canada's National Wheat Board to sell the accumulated surplus at a price the farmers are willing to take...
...died within an hour. The others, all exhausted and practically numb, huddled for the night in the only two-man tent that was still usable. The five arrived at Baker Lake on Sept. 24, ten days after the fatal accident, from where a search plane flew them to Churchill, Manitoba...
Last week Murchison answered that argument by signing up a customer for Trans-Canada. Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. contracted to buy 200 million cu. ft. of Alberta gas daily at the Manitoba-Minnesota border, and another 200 million cu. ft. a day when more gas becomes available. To supply T.G.T., Trans-Canada will build the first 670-mile leg of its line from the fields in Alberta to Winnipeg and the border. From the Minnesota border below Winnipeg, T.G.T. will build a $100 million, 1,050-mile pipeline to its trunk line at Portland, Tenn., selling Canadian...
Privation. In The Pas, Manitoba, Cree Indian Sam Umperville, 82, oldest resident on The Pas Reservation, looked about the room he was assigned to in St. Anthony's Hospital, then stalked unceremoniously out the front door, explaining testily, "There's no place to spit...
Will school history books now be rewritten to conform with Eccles' research? Probably not. Said Historian J. W. Chafe, author of the Manitoba high-school text: "It's going to be tough to write textbooks if every character in history is going to be debunked...