Word: langmuir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Farmers' Lament. Some of the rainmakers themselves hesitate to claim positive results from their efforts. Operating in the same touchy area where Irving Langmuir started, New York's Dr. Howell was warned that if he talked too much about dumping rain on the watersheds New York City might be sued by outraged farmers and resort owners in the Catskills. Until a fortnight ago he never mentioned his results. Then he cautiously admitted that his efforts had produced "a certain amount" of rain. In the same breath he suggested that on some occasions they might also have lessened...
What Do Ants Do? As a cautious scientist, Irving Langmuir himself would never go so far as Julius Slutsky's guests. But he is convinced nonetheless that man can make rain if he goes about it at the right time and in the right...
...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...
...Langmuir laughs and says: "We'll have to wait and see." With his radars and pocket thermometer, his optimism and his energy, he hopes to make ducks & drakes, some day soon, of New Mexico's perennial drought...