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...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...
...Dreamer. At 73, Rupert Turnbull is stoop-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...
...interest in Petitcodiac is largely philanthropic. He heads the Petitcodiac Tidal Power Co., which holds development rights. But he told the Senate Committee that his firm wants no money for the rights. Rupert Turnbull only wants to see, before he dies, a longtime dream come true...
...that this industry is made up of and dominated by communists, radicals and crackpots." The Generalissimo is urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with them. Hearst papers gave the affair pages of pleased attention...
...liveliest, best faculties, including Archibald Henderson (biographer of George Bernard Shaw), Sociologist Howard Washington Odum (Rain bow Round My Shoulder), Pulitzer Prize Playwright Paul Eliot Green (In Abraham's Bosom), Milton Joseph Rosenau (communicable diseases), Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (biographer of Henry Ford), Rupert Bayless Vance (Human Geography of the South...