Word: saskatchewan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for uranium would be satisfied by 1970. But a new contract with the Atomic Energy Commission allows the company to sell uranium commercially, and nuclear-minded private utilities promise a rich future market. Nevertheless, Homestake is diversifying further, has lately entered partnerships to produce potash (for fertilizer) in Saskatchewan, iron in Australia, lead and zinc in Missouri, and is studying a copper mining investment in Mauritania...
...Single Hobby. One of seven sons of a Saskatchewan General Motors dealer, Murphy-like most of his brothers-became an auto salesman while still in his teens. During the Depression he went broke selling Chevrolets in the farm town of Manteca, Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping...
Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they...
...commands up to $2,500 a concert and hopes "to help correct the image of the Indian as someone who is chased across the movie screen or sits in his rocking chair watching his oil wells." She frequently visits the Pyepot Indian Reserve, home of her tribe in Saskatchewan. Canada, recently returned from a four-month "recuperative leave" on an island off the coast of Spain, where she finished a concerto for guitar and orchestra and worked on an opera...
...Thomson decided to become a farmer in Saskatchewan, but the bleak and lonely life sent him scurrying back east. "Goddam, what a fool I am," he berated himself. He turned to selling radios in desolate northern Ontario, then discovered that people heard only static. So he built his own radio station. When the Timmons, Ont., Citizen pressured him to drop a certain news program, Thomson angrily bought out the paper for $6,000. Inadvertently, he had started his publishing empire...