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...Happened. War's disruption was the main cause. To it nature had added floods in China and French Indo-China, a tidal wave in Madras, drought in Australia, South Africa, Greece and Mexico. Rice as well as wheat was short; but since the four main countries (the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina) whose surplus grain might avert famine produced wheat, not rice, the world food crisis was spelled in terms of wheat...
...Tsunami (pronounced (tsu-nah'-mee) is a Japanese term favored by seismologists over the popular but inaccurate "tidal wave." Literal translation: seismic sea-wave...
...hand last week to protest the Navy's plan to expose a group of dogs and goats in the forthcoming tests at Bikini Atoll. A few jittery West Coast housewives made inquiries as to the possibility of the Bikini blast setting up 1) a high wind, 2) a tidal wave, 3) an earthquake. But almost nobody in the country seemed concerned about the chances of the world being atomized later...
...Cabinet delegation will negotiate against a background of famine. The monsoons failed to bring India's seasonal heavy rains; cyclones and tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...
Three Views. Earlier the Iranians had tried to sound out Big Three attitudes in London. The U.S. looked hopefully blank: it hoped most of all that nothing too controversial would come up at UNO's first meeting but knew that any attempt to discourage Iran would send a tidal wave of cynicism around the world...