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...recently, Venture decided that maybe he might, after all, offer a miracle. He had read news dispatches about artificial rainmaking in the U.S., resolved to have a go at it. He equipped a Peruvian air force plane with a rubber water tank, personally flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
With the help of science, the dream has at last become reality. Across the land, flyers were making rain by simply dropping 100-lb. loads of pulverized dry ice (solidified carbon dioxide) into cumulus clouds, thus precipitating ice crystals which turn into rain. This week, sweltering Chicago got an 8-to-18 degree break in a heat wave just when a plane hired by the Herald-American brought man-made rain. The Herald-American, of course, claimed the credit. For days previously, others had been doing...
...Richmond, Flying Instructor Brock Minor scattered 50 lbs. of dry ice into a cumulus cloud at 8,400 feet, brought the city its first shower in two weeks...
...Chicago Tribune airplane brought a 40-minute rain to suburban St. Charles, Ill., by "seeding" a 20,000-ft. cumulus cloud with...