Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...additional $70 million expansion program. Western oil production increased nearly one-third during the year, and great new developments for Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward and a $120 million line southward to carry natural gas to Eastern Canada and the Pacific Northwest. In British Columbia, the Aluminum Co. of Canada decided that the new $300 million Kitimat plant was already outgrown and launched a $200 million expansion...
Novelist Kenneth (Northwest Passage) Roberts likes men who pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia Bailey in 1947-is a grim little tale of survival. Based on a true story, it tells of a shipwreck in which each man's size and courage are fully measured during 24 days of simple horror...
Then the Russians moved northwest to another disputed ground, Kashmir. To them, the rich and populous region is not in dispute at all: since the other claimant is Pakistan, a sturdy ally of the U.S., the Russians are all for India's claims (which India stubbornly refuses to submit to U.N. plebiscite). After two vigorous days amid Kashmir's storied pleasures, the two returned from what Bulganin referred to as "this northern part of India." Pakistan had formally protested their visit to Kashmir. Huffed Khrushchev: "No other power in the past has dared to tell us what...
...serve more customers in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Part of the gas will come indirectly from Canada, through a deal (also authorized by FPC last week) in which Westcoast Transmission Co. of Canada will pipe 300 million cu. ft. a day into the lines of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., at the Canadian border, to supply the booming Northwest with natural gas (TIME, Dec. 27). Pacific Northwest will, in turn, sell 50 million cu. ft. to El Paso, delivering the gas through a series of exchanges...
...million itself), in markets that, says Kayser, are "sopping it up like a blotter." In total assets in 1954, El Paso ranked second among gas-pipeline companies to Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. Kayser himself, in the eyes of many gas men, ranks second to none. Says a Pacific Northwest man: "If this industry, spread out the way it is and always fighting within itself, can look on any one man as its spokesman, Mr. Kayser...