Word: aridity
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Haman may not win his claim on the clouds as private property, but his maneuver may help to solve a legal puzzle. In many arid regions, such as the U.S. Southwest, rain falls spottily, bringing good crops to some areas and drought to others nearby. Rainmaking with dry ice dropped from airplanes may change the distribution-perhaps in the Rocking F Ranch's favor...
...year in which lovers of history and biography could add a few books to their libraries, but good fiction, poetry and criticism were even rarer than in arid 1946. There was no U.S. novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which...
They were given 3,500,000 arid, mesa-studded acres in Arizona and New Mexico; a reservation which was gradually expanded until it was almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...
...TIME, June 17, 1946), turned to rain making as a possible stimulant for his dry-ice sales. Spencer hired a crop-service plane, succeeded in bringing showers to Mission, Kans., Excelsior Springs, Mo. This week five farmers from Burlington, Iowa hired the same plane to make rain over their arid 1,500 acres; it made rain all right-over a golf course, leaving their farms still...
...works on which his fame still rests: Le Roi David and Pacific 231, a huffing, chuffing orchestral description of a locomotive getting under way. In his oratorio-like Le Roi David he perfected his own trick of plaiting two huge, serpentine strands of melody into a dissonant, sometimes arid, fabric of harmony. He went on to write some 60 works, including four symphonies, also twenty-odd French and English movie scores (Mayerling, Pygmalion), a medium which he prefers to opera...