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By last week, prospectors were racing into the Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRAIRIES: The Big Strike | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

To 10,000 displaced Mennonites in the U.S. and British zones of Germany, they are sending a chartered ship. The D.P.s, mostly of Dutch extraction, will be carried (2,000 at a time) to Paraguay. There they will find two flourishing colonies settled in the late '20s by Mennonite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Plain People | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

To the Last Drop. At first Dr. ZoBell did not think much of his find, but oilmen heard about it and jumped at it eagerly. Their interest was based on a sad and simple fact: no known extraction process gets all the oil out of an oilfield. Much of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ferrets in the Oilfields | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

"Yesterday morning, Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19 Tremont Row . . . visited the... hospital, and administered his preparation to produce sleep, to a person about to undergo the operation of the extraction of a tumor from the neck. . . . The patient did not manifest the slightest symptoms of suffering. ... He appeared to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ether Centennial | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

¶ A U.S. citizen of Croat extraction who had once been a district organizer of the U.S. Communist Party.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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