Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rainmaker at Work. The great cloud-milking experiment was born last month when Mayor William O'Dwyer remembered how Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irving Langmuir had caused 320 billion gallons of rain (enough to fill New York's reservoirs with 60 billion gallons to spare) to fall on arid New Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained...
Last week Dr. Howell, trailed by an entourage of officials and reporters, was hustling around in the snowy Catskills, looking for a mountaintop on which to set up radar equipment (used in spotting rain-laden clouds). The city had made a deal with a Boston weather service to tell them when clouds were heading toward the Catskills; it was converting two of its four police department airplanes to use in dropping dry-ice pellets and silver-iodide ejectors, and two city trucks to use in cloud-tickling from the ground with silver iodide when flying was not feasible...
...right foreground, out of a Dali-type desert, rises a stack of 85 gold coins. A kingly crown lies in the sand nearby, and a derelict liquor bottle dribbles into oblivion. In the distance a ridge of bloody mounds bars the way to a paradisiacal grove of cloud-pink skyscrapers...
Many weather men criticized previous cloud-seeding experiments because they failed to provide precise checks on the amount of rain produced...
...days last week a pale yellow cloud rode a 70-mile gale across the southern Great Plains. In western Kansas, high-blowing sands blurred the sun and built ripply dunes along the east-west highways. In parts of Oklahoma the swirling dust cut visibility to half a mile. Winds in northern Texas sawed the sandy earth out from between dead cotton stocks, scooped fine topsoil from dry fields where winter wheat had failed to sprout because of long draught. Even in Dallas, 300 miles away, darkness came an hour early and sand sifted under windows and doors. Those who remembered...