Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saskatchewan Labor Relations Board announced that it was certifying the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in two of the province's uranium mines. The federal government admitted that, under Canadian law, it had no alternative to installing the same Red union as bargaining agent at the government-owned Eldorado mines, the country's largest uranium producers. Mine-Mill, already solidly entrenched at Trail, British Columbia, where heavy water for Canadian and U.S. atomic plants is produced, has long been Canada's most slavish Communist union. Harvey Murphy, the union's boss...
Howe broke into the Red Wing line-up as an 18-year-old rookie from Saskatchewan, after part of a season practicing with the Wings' junior farm team at Gait, Ont. He was a rookie sensation, with 22 points (goals and assists) his first year. Since then his production has risen steadily. By the end of the 1951 season, he led the league with an alltime high of 86 points (43 goals, 43 assists), hit 86 again last year, and was voted the league's most valuable player. His 47 goals last year were second only to Richard...
...market was touched off by two unrelated developments, new uranium finds in the Beaverlodge Lake area of northern Saskatchewan, and the reported base-metal discovery near Bathurst, N.B. The uranium, located on property of Gunnar Gold Mines Ltd., sent Gunnar Gold shooting from a 1952 low of 23? a share to more than $4. But the New Brunswick issues and the chance they offered speculators to strike it rich caused an even greater flurry of excitement. Typical of the rampaging success of these issues was Porcupine Peninsular, a little-known company with holdings in northern Ontario. When the exchange...
Linkletter is probably the most notable living native of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His parents moved to California when he was six, and Art worked his way through San Diego State College, won his varsity letter at basketball and swimming. A big (6 ft. i in., 210 Ibs.) and serious-minded athlete, he has only this year given up competing in National A.A.U. handball tournaments. He got into radio on a local San Diego station and has broadcast from planes, dirigibles, battleships and submarines. Once he had himself hoisted up & down the face of a skyscraper in a bosun...
...northern Saskatchewan wilderness, which once lured prospectors with a glittering promise of gold, was the scene of the world's first big uranium rush last week. Officials opened up a field on the shore of Lake Athabaska, and hundreds of prospectors swarmed in to stake claims...