Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barriers designed to protect domestic industry cast a pall of uncertainty over Canada's oil future, should be revoked. "If oil is needed for defense, there is no legitimate distinction between the wells of North Dakota and Texas, of Alberta and Saskatchewan...
...beating of wings sounded like thunder in the crisping air. Across 700 miles of flat and rolling water-flecked land from Alberta through Saskatchewan and on east to Manitoba, Canada's great duck factory was emptying for the winter. Some 200 million ducks, incubated in millions of prairie potholes and marshes that yield 65% of the continent's waterfowl, began the long flight south. From Canada they will scud at 40 to 50 m.p.h. over the four great fly ways (see map) to winter havens scattered from the southern U.S. to northern Peru. Along the way, millions will...
...smallest in four years -down sharply from 1956-57's huge 573.1 million bu. But it is so much better than anyone thought possible in early summer that many a wheat-belt farmer said a quiet prayer of thanks for a narrow escape from disaster. Said one Saskatchewan Wheat Pool official: "It's like the loaves and the fishes. It's a miracle...
...family unhesitatingly sold the homestead and moved to Saskatoon. In school John read the speeches of British parliamentary orators, developed his own florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead...
...military career was painfully anticlimactic. Soon after landing in France, he suffered a spinal injury in a back-of-the-lines accident that to this day he embarrassedly refuses to describe. He spent four months in a hospital, was sent home and discharged. Back at the University of Saskatchewan, he shot through law school in one year, and during the summer of 1919 he hung up his brand-new diploma in a 9-ft.-by-9-ft. office in a tin-fronted building in nearby Wakaw...