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...head of New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy, the tides average 35 ft. Twice a day a wall of roaring white water, called the "bore," rushes up the winding Petitcodiac River, then ebbs lazily back...
...years a New Brunswick inventor named Rupert Turnbull has dreamed of building dams using Fundy's tides to generate an estimated 400,000 h.p.* If the tides can be effectively harnessed, if Inventor Turnbull's particular plan is good, the Maritimes would get cheaper electricity, postwar employment...
...shouldered, spry, twinkle-eyed, enthusiastic. A native of St. John, N.B., he graduated from Cornell in 1893, studied at Germany's Heidelberg, got his first job as a General Electric Co. engineer at Newark. In 1899 he inherited a fortune from his banker father, soon returned to New Brunswick to experiment in the new science of aerodynamics...
...next day was .different. A similar U.S. air fleet attacked Brunswick, Mün-ster and four smaller towns, and this time the Luftwaffe came up in force and fought. Toll for the attackers was 27 bombers and six fighters, but 61 Nazi planes were shot down. And at week's end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the doomed Nazi capital...
Consequences. In one 24-hour period last week U.S. and R.A.F. commanders teamed up to launch more than 5,000 warplanes over Europe. Three massive assaults dropped a total bomb load of almost 7,000 tons on Berlin, Frankfort, Brunswick and other industrial targets. U.S. heavy bombers attacked on six of the seven days of the week. R.A.F. heavies dropped a record load of 3,360 tons on Frankfort; two nights later they dropped 2,800 tons on Berlin, then 2,240 tons on Essen...