Word: saskatchewaners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prime Minister King was not at all sure at week's end of his own personal election. In the constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was still leading CCFer Edward LeRoy Bowerman. But his margin had been sliced to 200-odd votes, and the soldier vote had not yet been announced...
...many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...
...Prime Minister achieved a success even in the heart of Saskatchewan. Against strong CCF opposition, he won his own personal election in the remote riding of Prince Albert...
...Next the Saskatchewan Government would buy up for $493,000 all outstanding preferred stock in the company. This would mean a sizable annual saving in federal taxes (last year the company paid $112,000) because under federal law companies which are 90% owned by a government are taxexempt...
Result: for a total outlay of $693,000, Saskatchewan has acquired a tax-free power company which last year showed net profits of $334,000 and which had 400 miles of line and some 8,000 customers. Probable next step: provincial purchase of another private power company, in the province, Saskatchewan's Prairie Power...