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...only socialist government in Can ada faced the toughest fight of its young life. Big business, which had seethed in silence for 15 months while Saskatchewan's CCFers adopted a batch of socialist laws, suddenly struck back. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Dominion Loan & Mortgage Association and the Hudson's Bay Co. appealed to the Federal Government to void three key Saskatchewan laws...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
Stovel is a good example of our Canadian correspondents and how they work: as telegraph editor of the Leader-Post he handles hundreds of stories each day, also looks for TIME news leads in a score of Saskatchewan papers. But Stovel knows his special job for TIME is to supply us with stories we could not get in any other way, so most afternoons find him digging out the news on the spot as he talks with farmers and workers and businessmen all over his vast territory...
...Very, Very Sorry." Mr. King was plainly disgruntled. Said he: "I am very, very sorry. . . . The CCF sweep in Saskatchewan goes far to disclose how much of the [CCF Party's time] was being given to ... the winning of elections, while the Government and its followers were mainly concerned with making Canada's war effort as effective as possible...
Like millions of his fellow Canadians. William Lyon Mackenzie King spent the first days of last week waiting to learn whether he would win or lose in his own constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the soldier votes were finally counted,* the Prime Minister had been beaten by socialist CCFer E. L. Bowerman. What made the dose doubly hard for King to take: his defeat was by a piddling 129 votes (out of 19,341 votes cast); Bowerman was running for public office for the first time...