Word: sask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Privilege. In Prince Albert, Sask., angry citizens protested against a new local tax on outdoor privies, said it made "the poor poorer and the rich richer...
...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
Peacemeal. In Yorkton, Sask., a restaurant proudly proclaimed peace & plenty: "We are now making 300 sandwiches from a pound of cheese instead of the former 500 per pound...
Opposition parties had stood aside to let Mr. King slide comfortably into the Glengarry seat after his defeat in Prince Albert, Sask., in the June 11 general election. To Dr. Monahan, no more a resident of Glengarry than the Prime Minister, this procedure seemed too cut & dried. Said he: "If he's not good enough for Prince Albert, he's not good enough for old Glengarry...
...after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury, Sask.) missed it completely because of clouds, but scores of other astronomers' parties (the Russians alone had 22) got good observations...