Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artificial. He tries to bring out basic shapes that are hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call...
...dropped into the clouds from planes and, by lowering the temperature of the air, creates small ice crystals or nuclei to which the water drops in the cloud cling. These drops then fall and melt into rain as they near the earth...
...silver iodide crystals are carried into the rain clouds by air currents from ground crystal generators. When the crystals reach the cloud, they serve as nuclei to which the water in the cloud adheres. The advantage of using the crystals is that they attract the water particles at a much higher temperature than the regular ice crystals...
...rain-stopping operation is simply an over-seeding of the clouds with iodide crystals which attract the water particles in the cloud. The heavy crystals then fall as rain and the light ones "blow" off the top of the cloud. This leaves the cloud without water drops and thus in-capable of raining...
Howell, best known for his cloud-seeding which brought 24 billion gallons of water to a parched New York City in 1950, said he would gladly consider any bids from the University for stopping rain on commencement week, spring weekends or football games. He added, however, that the job would cost something near $10,000 for one day and even then the chances would be only 50-50 that the rain could be prevented...