Canada advances practical field of weather resistant building
Canadian researchers at the University of Saskatchewan developed a cement resistant to soil chemicals. The National Research Council's new division studies climate effects on building materials with tests across Canada. Test huts at Saskatoon Churchill and Ottawa monitor fire snow and flood impacts to guide future construction nationwide.
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Canada
University of Saskatchewan
National Research Council
Robert F. Legget
Saskatoon
Churchill
Ottawa
Manitoba
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Pays $2 Million to Farmers
Saskatchewan farmers receive a windfall of 2 055 666 from the provincial wheat pool. Delegates approved an excess charges refund from the grain division earnings to be paid proportionally to deliveries. The pool reported earnings of 2 717 437 from handling 123 million bushels through country elevators and over 8 million through pool terminals. Pool country elevators handled 51.43 percent of grain deliveries, slightly up from the prior crop year.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Wheat Pool
Pool Country
Demand for honey rises as shortage looms in Canada
The Canadian Beekeepers Council reported increasing demand for honey in Canada and estimated a 6,000,000 pound shortage before the 1951 crop. The convention in Banff, Alberta highlighted the coming supply gap.
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Banff, Alta
Canadian Beekeepers Council
Canada
20 000 Years For Atomic Bombs To Destroy World
British physicist J H Fremlin of Birmingham University warned at a Birmingham Peace Council meeting that it would take about 20 000 years for atomic bombs to destroy the world surface even with full US and USSR effort. He said Britain could be half or two thirds destroyed, noting Greenland ice cap averages 1000 feet.
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Birmingham
England
Russia
U.S
J. H. Fremlin
Birmingham University
Britain
Fremlin
Birmingham Peace Council
British Peace Committee
Humor Sketches and Quips From Everyday Life
A collection of short jokes and witticisms about romance medicine work and mistaken deeds. The humor centers on engagement fallout tongue tied doctors petty thefts laziness petrol misunderstandings and a magistrate exchange with a curious but biased defendant.
Oil Found Near Melita Manitoba Report
Manitoba minister J S McDiarmid announced oil found at Souris Valley Oil Downey No 1, 17 miles south of Melita. Not yet commercial. drilling halted by mechanical breakdown, to resume and probe deeper. Company VP Harry L Carnahan predicted big potential if commercial quantities are reached.
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Winnipeg
J. S. McDiarmid
Manitoba
Souris
Melita
Man
Here
Harry L. Carnahan
New Orleans
Downey Farm
Carnahan
International
Saskatchewan
Dates Set For Flin Flon Festival
Northern Manitoba Trappers' Festival committee announces Feb 14 15 16 17 as festival dates with Trevor Morgan taking over leadership from W. Walkinshaw. Contests include amateur snapshot by north of 53 residents and best fire prevention poster open to all children north of 53. Best Cree speaking by paleface noted as another contest.
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PAS
Northern
Manitoba Trappers’ Festival Association
W. Walkinshaw
Trevor Morgan
Walkinshaw
Dominion Bank of Canada
The Markhoor Goat of India With Spiral Horns
The Markhoor breed from India is noted for its distinctive spiral horns. The animal exhibits a robust frame and a calm temperament, making it a valued breed in regional farming and livestock exhibitions.
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India
Wanless Manitoba wildcard new agricultural area for settlers
Major Roy Allan promoted Wanless as Manitoba’s best area for high class oats and planned a settlement for 40 war veterans with families next year. Allan, son of a Nova Scotia seafaring family, turned Wanless into an experimental station with Indian help and a cab building project.
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Cranberry Portage
Mar
Nova Scotia
Manitoba
Wanless
Roy Allan
Roy
Morieut Wood
Allan
Pas
Department of Agriculture
Brandon
Canada’s new home construction peak hits 341 million
New residential construction value in Canada for the first half of 1950 reached 341 million dollars, up nine percent from the same period in 1949, signaling strong housing activity and economic momentum.
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Canada
Alberta oil revenues reach new record in six months
Alberta posted a six month fiscal period ending September 30 with receipts surpassing expenditures by 15.23 million dollars and a record high surplus. Oil lease sales royalties and rents added nearly 29 million to the public treasury.
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Edmonton
aAlberta
C. K. Huckvale
Oyster culture predates Christ by two millennia
Oysters were favored as a popular food more than 2,000 years ago and oyster culture existed before the era of Christ.
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Flin Flon Festival
Herb Trawick
Montreal Alouettes
Lord Calvert
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Alberta
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