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Next most promising oil prospects are the shores of the Pacific-including Alaska, Chile, Japan, the South Sea Islands. Most promising for the U.S. is the Williston Basin, spreading over parts of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Saskatchewan, Alberta. But so abundant is oil nearly everywhere that its discovery is primarily a matter of the "social state of mind." Says Oilman Pratt: "Where oil really is, then, in the final analysis, is in our own heads...
...first won military distinction by applying his science on the battlefield. At McGill University, after boyhood on the Saskatchewan frontier, he studied for a commission in Canada's small peacetime army while he also distinguished himself as a student of electricity. In 1914 he was a major in a battery of field artillery; he left his job in a McGill laboratory to go to France. In 1918 he was a brigadier general, commanding the Canadian Corps' heavy artillery...
Effective Sept. 1, 1941: William Schneider, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, as Research Fellow in Chemistry; Ph.D. McGill '41; and Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Government and Tutor; A.M. Harvard...
National League. Only team badly jarred is the New York Americans. Five of its most promising youngsters (from the strict Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan) were refused passports. But the Americans have become accustomed to bad breaks ever since the league took the club away from its financially embarrassed owner, onetime Beer Baron...
More promising was the outlook for the New York Rangers, the Americans' archrivals. The 1941 Rangers lost their star goalie, Dave Kerr, who retired to go into the beer business. To replace him, Manager Lester Patrick brought from his Regina (Saskatchewan) kindergarten a 21-year-old named Jim ("Sugar") Henry. Henry has never' played anything but amateur hockey. But rinkfans who saw him guard the Ranger nets to two victories last week voted Sugar Jim the sweetest rookie to come up to the big-time in years. He may do more than his share toward keeping the Boston...