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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATHABASKA OIL SANDS in Alberta, which have estimated reserves of 300 billion bbls. but have long defeated efforts to extract oil, will be developed by Canada's Royalite Oil Co., Ltd. Royalite will start building plant this spring to separate 20,000 bbls. of oil a day from sands with new centrifugal process, then add processing plant, town site for 1,400 people, and a 350-mile pipeline to Edmonton. Initial cost: $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...says, "was my way of paying a premium on my job insurance." By the time the great man's portrait is filled in by his pressagent ("I was paid to work for him, not to like him"), and by a simple, slightly ridiculous man who gave him his start-winningly played by Ed Wynn ("He was not a nice person")-what emerges is "a glorified con man with his voice amplified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...somethimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...freshman mile relay team picked up the other Crimson victory of the evening as it ran the Providence and Brown freshmen into the ground. Pat Liles, although boxed in badly at the start, passed the other two men during the third lap and haded off to second man Bob Hoyt 10 yards ahead of Providence. Hoyt opened this lead up until he had nearly a half lap on Providence, Art Cahn held this lead, and anchorman Ed Martin increased it to nearly three-quarters of a lap at the wire...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Wins Mile Relay in K. of C. Games | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...Slow Start...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity Wins Mile Relay in K. of C. Games | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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