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...singers withdrew the suit when Krick, an affable and convincing talker, assured them that it probably wouldn't rain anyhow. (Krick insists that he is only a sort of meteorological dairy hand who can only milk, not create, clouds.) But the incident dramatized the fact that Krick, almost overnight, has become one of the West's most controversial characters and that for better or for worse, rainmaking has come to stay...
...Krick's method uses coke-burning generators which send silver-iodide particles skyward to increase precipitation. His theories of weather forecasting and rainmaking have been opposed by the U.S. Weather Bureau, Physicist Irving Langmuir, who started cloud seeding, and many another scientist...
...Singing in America, Inc. last week broke off its calculated yearning for the misty past to combat what seemed like an unbearably rainy future. Fearful that a Denver "carnival of harmony" would get washed out, the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. went into district court and asked that Dr. Irving P. ("The Rainmaker") Krick be forced to turn off his baleful ring of cloud-seeding machines surrounding the city...
Reproachful Looks. In thirsty Arizona, the most successful is Charles Barnes of Phoenix, a first-class flying man who, with 17 airplanes equipped or being equipped for rainmaking, had seven projects going full blast from Texas to California. Another big rainmaker is Irving Krick of Pasadena, Calif., who has projects in New Mexico, Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Best publicized of the lot is Harvard's Dr. Wallace Howell, hired last March by New York City (at $100 a day for a maximum of 15 days a month) when the great reservoirs in the Catskills and Westchester County were...
...Fitzpatrick, William B. Frothingham, Jr., Lewis Gordon, Jr., David J. Hanson, John L. Harding, William D. Healey, Jr., Charles L. Hill, William S. Holbrook 3d, John W. Ingraham, Joseph J. Jablonski, William W. Jones, William A. Julian 4th, Donal J. Kaderabek, Robert L. Kendall, Jr., Gregory Kollegian, Gene W. Krick, Carroll M. Lowenstein (captain), Kostas Mathew, Stanley Miller, Gordon M. Morrison, Jr., Robert E. Moulla, Louis R. Nichols, Jr., Thomas W. Ossman, Leon J. Pernice, Fred A. Ravreby, Robert W. Ray, Costas C. Rodis, Alexander E. Sergienko, Robert B. Thompson, Robert H. Thompson, Charles S. Walsh, Jr., Warren D. Wylie...