Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plane. SAC's complicated and outsize bombers demand ice-cold thinking, endurance and guts from the men who fly them. The Consolidated Vultee B-36, a cigar-shaped aerial monster, is LeMay's blue-ribbon flying warship. It costs $4,700,000 before it ever gets off the ground (a small submarine costs $6,000,000). The tanks in its 230-ft. wing can swallow 2½ tank-car loads of gasoline, enough to feed its six pusher engines for nearly two days. It can cruise over the enemy out of sight of earth-and, the Air Force...
Water, reasoned Vonnegut, forms hexagonal ice crystals with well-known characteristics. If another hexagonal crystal could be found with nearly the same characteristics, the water molecules in the air might be fooled into building up on it as if it were a genuine ice nucleus...
Vonnegut thumbed through fat books on crystallography. At last he spotted a promising compound: silver iodide. Its molecules do not resemble water molecules, but they build into crystals almost exactly like those of ice...
Softening Opposition. Many authorities did not agree with him. Langmuir's theories have been attacked by the U.S. Weather Bureau, by civilian and military meteorologists. In 1948 the Weather Bureau tried its own cloud-seeding experiments, dumping dry ice and silver iodide into clouds in Ohio. No significant rain fell from them. Langmuir's explanation is that the clouds were the wrong kind in the first place, and that they were greatly overseeded...
...Kanin's Leo Mack (nicely played by Scott McKay) kicks up a fair amount of routine commotion, but he is miles behind any of a dozen Ring Lardner heels. In fact the whole setup, only substituting sex for ice hockey, recalls Dan Baxter and the brothers Rover. Sex-with almost willful bad taste-is worked for any laugh it can raise, at any level...