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...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...
...occasion: the meeting of the subcommittee on health and medical care (headed by U.S. Surgeon General Thomas Parran) of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The time: last fortnight. The place: Atlantic City. The talk: tidal. The plans: global. Some of them...
...another problem the world will be highly sensitive: the Chinese treatment of the minority Moslem race, alien in language, religion and culture. Are the Turks, who form 60% of the population, to be steamrollered into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...
Applications for postwar air routes filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board have reached tidal-wave proportions. American Aviation last week listed 80 companies and individuals (including 17 established airlines) that have plotted 350,000 miles of new foreign and domestic services...
...drift away from isolation in this country is becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...