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...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker...
...advertises his personality by wearing $32 shirts, lurid handkerchiefs and horse-blanket-striped suits, likes to talk about himself, and knows that every word is money in the bank. He has his fast-growing business, which grossed $3,000,000 last year and his income of $676,000* prove...
...Altostratus, a high, flat, greyish blanket, gives a flyer a wide range of maneuver: he can duck below it to look at the ground, climb above to hide, thread his way above and below to lose a pursuer...
Prisoners who were planning escapes were almost sacred to their comrades. At night a group of two or three, concealed behind a blanket, would go to work forging papers, altering clothes, rehearsing in costume. "One let them alone, tacitly, unless they asked for help. One looked at them in awe, but from a distance...