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Last year was the driest on record in southern Missouri, even drier than disastrous 1936. This year, so far, has been worse. In the 22 months since December 1951, the moisture deficiency in the southern half of Missouri amounts to a million tons of water for every square mile of tillable land. Said Charlie Williford, U.S. weatherman in Springfield: "All we need is five inches of snow for a week, and a cloudburst in between...
...gets thicker, it also prevents the tops of clouds from losing heat as rapidly as before. The smaller temperature difference between cloud base and top cuts down the air currents which must circulate through the cloud before rain or snow can form. Lowered rainfall will make a drier climate. Less cloud cover will be formed, more sunlight will reach the earth, and the average temperature will rise still higher...
...Such lightweight household equipment as a portable sewing machine half as heavy as present machines; a kitchen step-stool that weighs only two pounds; a clothes-drier rack one-third as heavy as those made of wood; a 16-in. lawnmower that weighs only 25 Ibs. (plus the handle...
...barrel-shaped container which rolled around and around like the Barrel of Laughs at a carnival. Hours later he was taken out, spitting blood but still unable to name a guilty American. The Communists strapped him in a chair under a gadget like a beauty-shop hair drier that shot small electric charges into his skull. He screamed for release and tried desperately to think of an American name-any American name-that might satisfy his torturers, but he could think of none...
...drier aspects of their research, Authors David Clayton and Punch Cartoonist David Langdon learned that some Spaniards call a hangover a clavo (nail), short for "a nail in the head." And one nail, they believe, drives out another...