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...south where oil had already been found (see map), brought in three wildcat wells near Lesser Slave Lake in a previously untapped rock formation that was the same as that at Great Slave Lake. The discovery touched off Canada's biggest oil play since the great Leduc and Pembina oilfields were tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Freeing the Slave | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...wife and two children to their home. Near exhaustion from bucking the breathtaking wind, he fought his way back to the car and lifted out his six-year-old son. When Treichel got him home, the child was frozen to death. A Northern Pacific locomotive groped into Pembina, N. Dak. The crew discovered they had struck Mike Howry's daughter, had been dragging her body along on the pilot. Searchers found the frozen body of the girl's sister near Mike's home. The storm's toll: at least 68 dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHES: Act of God | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...much royalty as the Paris Ritz that night. On the register were Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, Princess Ileana and her husband Archduke Anton of Habsburg, Infante Alfonso of Spain, Grand Duke Cyril of Russia and his son Prince Vladimir, Princess Marina of Greece. Mr. & Mrs. Johnson of Pembina, N. Dak. complained of the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Little King | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

Last week the Army and the airmail finally parted ways when the last route (Chicago-Pembina, N. Dak.) was taken over by Hanford Tri-State Air Lines. Meanwhile in Washington Congress was putting the finishing touches to the new Air Mail Law before sending it on to the White House. The act establishes a 6? airmail postage rate, provides one-year mail contracts with rates to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (maximum 40? per airplane mile), prohibits interlocking directorates and holding companies, limits each contractor to one primary and two secondary routes, permits carriers whose contracts were canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Mail Act | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...officials swiftly, neatly, pleasantly clear the incoming planes. Canada has ten such ports of entry-Fredericton (seaplane station), N. B., Hamilton, Ont., Leaside (near Toronto), Ont., Lethbridge, Alta., Montreal (seaplane station), St. Hubert (at Montreal), Moose Jaw, Sask., Regina, Sask., Virden, Man., Winnipeg, Man. The U. S. has nine-Pembina, N. Dak., Portal, N. Dak., Port Angeles, Wash., Seattle, Newport. Vt., Albany, Buffalo, Detroit. St. Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Canada's Air Dominion | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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