Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prairies, farmers dug into savings for cash to meet their taxes, payments on land and farm machinery. In Sanford, Man., the local credit union closed its books when the outstanding loans reached the legal limit. In Alberta farm towns, barter in livestock began to replace cash sales. In Saskatchewan, idle farmers swamped the National Employment Service with job applications. Last week the government offered a stopgap plan for the government to guarantee bank loans to farmers with stocks of unsalable grain. The scheme disappointed many farmers, who had hoped for straight cash advances on their crops. Meanwhile, Ottawa prepared...
Professor Clarence Tracy of the University of Saskatchewan has attempted to sort legend from fact in The Artificial Bastard. In a scholarly, dispassionate way, he weighs the existing evidence about Savage, reaches conditional conclusions, and in doing so reveals the social and literary environment of the eighteenth century. Like all Savage's biographers, Tracy is particularly concerned with His claim to nobility as it seems to be the key to Savage's complex personality...
...DAVIDSON Saskatoon, Saskatchewan...
...Smiley discovery is the biggest event in a year of high-pressure oil exploration all over Saskatchewan. Until last year, the province had run a poor second to neighboring Alberta in oil exploration. Through most of 1953, however, while Alberta drilling dropped 3%, Saskatchewan's increased almost 100%, with some 75 Canadian and U.S. companies taking part. At year's end there were 14 established oilfields in the province, with about 450 operating wells...
Most other Saskatchewan wells yield heavy black crude, rather than the lighter, and more valuable oil produced in Alberta. The Smiley strike, yielding a 32-to-36°-gravity light oil, has given Saskatchewan oilmen reason to hope that, in quality as well as quantity, their wells may some day match Alberta's best. Oil companies have already budgeted a record $40 million for development...