Word: raine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Results were poor. When solid winter cloud layers were sprinkled with dry-ice pellets (or water droplets or chemicals such as silver iodide), practically nothing happened. In no case did rain start falling unless it was already falling less than 30 miles away...
...experiments on the towering cumulus clouds of summer, results were hardly better. Seventy-nine of them got the dry-ice treatment, but only 18 produced any rain; in all cases except five, rain was already falling within 30 miles. Even in these five cases, there was natural rain 40 to 60 miles away...
...from causing rain, the dry ice often produced the opposite effect: it made clouds dissipate. In rolling officialese, the Air Force and Weather Bureau expressed their joint disillusionment: "The responsible scientists of the project interpret the long series of experiments to mean that recently proposed artificial weather modification processes are of relatively little economic importance...
...some time, but blamed too much walking or standing. On Nov. 6 he did a lot of cross-country walking while hunting at Windsor; that night, after attending a British Legion Remembrance Festival, he complained that his right foot bothered him, but the next day he stood in the rain during a Remembrance Day service. Since he took over the throne his brother abdicated twelve years ago, the nervous, shy, self-effacing King has probably changed uniforms more often, shaken more hands, listened to more speeches, and laid more wreaths than any other chief of state in modern times...
Christmas Day, 1948 will be "unpleasant with rain or snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...