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Norman Wells

American  

noun

  1. a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.


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Strategically, the booming Norman Wells development on the banks of the Mackenzie is of highest importance.

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First step was to expand Norman Wells, an oil field 100 miles south of the Arctic in the great Canadian Northwest.

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To Washington and Whitehorse and Norman Wells shuttled U.S. and Canadian officials and oilmen.

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Though it was technically a spring day in Norman Wells, the temperature was 26� below zero.

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But they were just 92 miles from the Arctic Circle, at Norman Wells, where her husband runs a refinery for Imperial Oil.

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