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...your Aug. 28 cover story about rainmakers, you said that silver iodide had a tendency to drift with the wind . . . We were wondering if some of Dr. Langmuir's silver iodide might have drifted this far ... as all rain records for Kansas have-been broken this past July and August...
Instead of "triggering a rainstorm," the objective is to turn the small water droplets . . . into fine snowflakes, so that the cloud will fuzz out and drift away instead of growing into a towering cumulus with an anvil top and lots of lightning...
Conclusion. Postponing preparations for a possible showdown beyond a 1953 deadline is a disguised policy of drift; it is just waiting for the atomic dust to settle on Chicago...
...Birmingham, England, scientists attending the 112th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, spent three hours heatedly debating the Wegener theory of continental drift.* Finally they put the question to a vote. The result, an even division for and against, proved that the scientists are as thoroughly split as the continents. Less controversial was a speech by Sir Harold Hartley, the group's president, who came with his own list of the world's biggest problems: 1) the growing strain of increasing population, 2) the malnutrition and endemic sickness of perhaps half the world...
...neither Langmuir nor Workman is overanxious to publish their latest results. Both feel that too much silver iodide is being sprayed around the Southwest these days. It might be just as well to leave matters as they are for a while before western clouds are overseeded or the chemicals drift to the east and cause too much rain...