Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which to set up radar equipment (used in spotting rain-laden clouds). The city had made a deal with a Boston weather service to tell them when clouds were heading toward the Catskills; it was converting two of its four police department airplanes to use in dropping dry-ice pellets and silver-iodide ejectors, and two city trucks to use in cloud-tickling from the ground with silver iodide when flying was not feasible...
...false alarm Saturday morning, 600 pounds of dry ice were rushed to Floyd Bennett Field. Clouds had formed over the city's watershed areas and the rainmakers vainly hoped that weather conditions would permit the first experiments over the weekend...
...extensive equipment includes a machine for crushing the dry ice into pellets, which will arrive at the airport this afternoon; a radio for communication between the ground crews and the panes; an ice-scattering device for one of the planes, and possibly a radar unit...
Howell intends to conduct the first tests in the Catskill Mountains, north of the city. Two Police Department planes will scatter the dry ice pellets on cloud formations in hopes of precipating rain...
Eliot House's undefeated championship hockey team leaves this morning for New Haven, where it will take on Yale's Davenport College in the intermural ice playoff...