Word: rainlessness
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...raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty unemployment in the engineering trades; French labor unions threatened new demands for wage increases. With
...rained at a University Commencement once in the last 30 years. And chances are good that this will be the 31st rainless Commencement. According to the U.S. Weather Bureau, there is a slight possibility of a local shower late this afternoon, but chances are remote. It will, however, be hot, with the highest temperature around 88 degrees...
Moving the Rain. Shasta Dam, second highest in the world, now blocks the upper waters of the Sacramento, storing 4,500,000 acre-feet * of water. During the almost rainless summers, this water will be fed into the Sacramento. When it reaches the delta where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin join, it will be led across the lowlands to a pumping plant at Tracy, in the foothills of the Coast Range. There it will get a boost from six huge pumps to lift it 200 feet into a canal. The pumps run on power from Shasta Dam. At Tracy...
Extra-sensitive equipment was necessary, and the radio astronomers had to wait for still, rainless nights, though radio reception from the stars is not ordinarily affected by the weather. Six times they allowed the rotation of the earth to sweep the telescope past the nebula. Each time they moved the mast slightly to cover a different strip of sky. In the four middle sweeps they found what they were looking for: low peaks in the curves representing radio energy reaching the telescope. Careful analysis of the curves showed that the waves must have come from an oval object like...
Tonight's rally will be the first with flares this fall, since the fire hazard caused by the rainless spell early this month prohibited the use of torches at the Columbia rally...