Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Field in Texas, is one of the biggest explorers in North Dakota's promising Williston Basin, and has 6,800,000 acres on lease in Canada. It is already producing at its Duhamel field in Alberta, and a month ago brought in the new Roseray well in southern Saskatchewan...
...search for oil continues on the Canadian prairies. Winter has actually speeded development in Northern Manitoba; a whole town is being moved overland by tractors and sleighs to the isolated site of a new nickel mine. Another town, Uranium City, is springing up in the far north of Saskatchewan near the shaft of a new uranium mine that will be the biggest in North America, and may be the richest in the world when it goes into production late this year. Meanwhile, Canada's big cities-Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Hamilton and Winnipeg-are growing upward with modern skyscrapers...
...were put in the Canadian atomic pile at Chalk River, Ont. and left there for two years to be bombarded with neutrons and made highly radioactive. Then 24 wafers of the radioactive product (Cobalt 60) became the charge for London's cobalt bomb; the others were sent to Saskatchewan for another cobalt bomb, which was in operation at Saskatoon last week. More cobalt is being "cooked" for the first U.S. units...
Donnie got his chance for life because his father, a Saskatchewan farmer, refused to believe his boy had to die, cradled him in his arms on a six-day bus trip to California, praying for a miracle (TIME, July 2). Brain Specialist William T. Grant (who operated free) seemed to have performed the miracle father Morton prayed...
Search for Oil. At the height of its expansion, Matador owned or leased feeding ranges which included large tracts in Saskatchewan and hundreds of thousands of acres of reservation land leased from the Indians in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Now, apart from the main 400,000-acre Matador ranch, the holdings consist of another 394,000-acre ranch (the Alamositas, or Little Cottonwoods) 140 miles to the northwest, and a small 4,000acre feeding strip near Malta, Mont. The lure to the buyers of Matador is not only cattle; it is also oil and gas. Although Humble Oil & Refining...