Word: rains
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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...
...Women's Championship almost had a form upset when Althea Gibson (TIME, July 17), first Negro ever to play in the Nationals, carried Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough to within one game of match before rain stopped their second-round contest. But next day, 22-year-old Tennist Gibson no longer had her touch or speed, and she went out of the tournament...
...rain-soaked beach at Cap Gris Nez one night last week, 24 grease-plastered men & women waded into the English Channel and struck out for England. By next night, when the last competitor was pulled exhausted from the water, a world's record had been broken, seven men and two women had succeeded in swimming all the way to Dover beach...
...sure yet just what portion of the rain is due to out efforts," he said. "The City of New York and the U. S. Weather Bureau are now conducting a joint study to determine whether or not we have succeeded in this area...
...York rain problem under control...