On the wild western rim of Canada's Northwest Territories, 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the U.S. Army is in the oil business.
With military supervision and secrecy, and with plentiful U.S. funds, wells are being brought in as fast as the drills can go down. Pipelines are being strung through some of the roughest country on the continent. Refineries and tank farms are going up to make and store gasoline and oil for the planes to Asia.
Strategically, the booming Norman Wells development on the banks of the Mackenzie is of...
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