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...Some misguided Washington patriot, unable to get at the Japs, emulated the Father of his Country and chopped down four of the lovely Japanese cherry trees along Washington's Tidal Basin...
...this remarkable character Florence L. Dorsey, a kinswoman, has written a remarkable biography. Author Dorsey has an almost biologic feeling for the violence of growth-the uptilting of mountains, the plunge of rivers, the tidal surge of young and healthy nations. And she is equally at home in the Pleistocene age and the administrations of Jefferson and Madison...
...while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where in 1900 a hurricane and tidal wave killed 6,000, sandbags were piled before doorways, windows boarded up. Long before the Weather Bureau released its dry warning that the storm was at hand, launches chugged inland over the bayous, dugouts paddled swiftly toward settlements, country storekeepers moved their stock to high shelves...
This week Engineer Jollie said he had indeed looked at the Kalunite site with Engineer Chadwick. Reason: OPM had asked Alcoa to build the plant for Olin. Mr. Jollie vetoed Mr. Eichelberger's site because it was on tidal land...
...week's end. Labor's Non-Partisan League (John L. Lewis, chairman) groaned: "In a virtual tidal wave of reaction the Administration sponsored legislation that advances far along the totalitarian path of forced labor. . . . Unless the events of this terrible week can be reversed, it is clear that American democracy will soon become just another museum piece to be set on a shelf beside the former democracies of the Old World...