Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 150 lbs. of dry ice...
...much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows the last efforts of the defeated soldiers drowning in an ice flow...
Johnson's ample share of this take is assured through the franchise terms which require all owners to pay him a set percentage of their take, buy all their supplies from the Howard D. Johnson Co. The company owns six ice-cream factories, four candy and jam plants, a clam bed at Ipswich, Mass. It provides the restaurants with 700 items, ranging from hot dogs to toilet tissue. The company, being privately owned (chiefly by Johnson), has never revealed its profits. With the 200 new branches, however, other restaurateurs guess that Johnson will not be far from his avowed...