Word: saskatchewan
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Shortliffe is a member of the Cooperative Commenwealth Federation, a political party whose position corresponds roughly to that of the British Labour Party, and which holds 13 seats in the federal parliament, forms the government of the provice of Saskatchewan and the Official Opposition in Ontario and British Columbia. He often speaks at the Kingston branch of the CCF and has been a frequent news commentator on the national hookup of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (a government department). As far as I know he hasn't alarmed anyone but the Tory newspapers in Montreal and Toronto, and the Canadian Manufacturers...
...sister machine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon has been used experimentally to treat eight patients since February. Directors of the Canadian project are not yet ready to report results. * Patients with cancer so widespread as to be considered hopeless will not be treated with the betatron. Also, many common types of cancer cells do not yield to X-ray treatment...
...just finished its compilation last week when Phillips Petroleum's President Kenneth S. Adams announced in Calgary that his company had bought an interest in 4,800,000 acres of oil rights in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In its northern venture, Phillips was following the trail of such giants as Standard Oil (N.J.) and the Texas Co. They and other U.S. firms were turning out 66% of all petroleum products made in Canada...
...Saskatchewan farmers were cautious about taking delivery of cars, trucks and tractors they had ordered when the world wheat famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink and ermine prices were down 35%. British Columbia lumbermen were cutting the price of lower grades, and they saw more cuts in prospect...
...nosed Wallace Sterling, 42, is an ex-football player himself (at the University of Toronto), who also likes to raise delphiniums. The son of an Ontario minister, he taught history and coached football at Saskatchewan's Regina College, then moved to the U.S. in 1932. While earning a Ph.D. at Stanford, he became a history instructor at CalTech. Most Californians know him best as a weekly radio news commentator (for Day & Night water heaters). Last spring he became director of the famed Huntington Library and Art Gallery at San Marino, Calif...