Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business (12%) of any city in the U.S. Nobody yet knows how vast the basin's oil pools may be, but Amerada, Shell, Texaco and others have already brought in wells as far as 115 miles apart. Since oil has also been found across the Canadian border in Saskatchewan, oilmen suspect that the Williston pool extends there, think they may find fields rivaling Alberta's great Leduc and Redwater fields...
Canada's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease is more menacing than ever. The quarantine area that circled only a few Saskatchewan farms at the start (TIME, March 10) has spread out over some 7,000 sq. mi. The latest case was found less than 50 miles from the U.S. border, raising the greatest danger to the U.S. livestock industry since the last U.S. outbreak in 1929. Washington ordered extra inspection patrols into Montana and North Dakota to strengthen the guard against the virus...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
...foot-and-mouth plague slipped into Canada in spite of elaborate quarantine precautions to prevent its entry from Europe or Mexico, the nearest infected areas.* The first Canadian case, thought at the time to be vesicular stomatitis (blistering of the mouth), broke out at a Saskatchewan farm on which a German immigrant had worked briefly last November. Investigation proved that the man had worked on an infected farm in Germany shortly before coming to Saskatchewan. Government scientists believed that the virus had been brought in on the immigrant's work clothes...
Ruthless slaughter of infected or exposed stock, plus enforcement of strict quarantine measures, are the only known methods of stamping out the savagely virulent disease. Canada's Department of Agriculture is enforcing both measures to the limit in Saskatchewan. The 22 farms where the disease exists have been tightly quarantined. Bulldozers have begun digging a series of deep trenches on the hard-frozen prairies. As fast as the mass graves can be dug, cattle, sheep and goats from the infected farms are herded into them and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables with .303 rifles. More than...