Word: rains
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Meteorologist Wallace C. Howell '36 leaves for New York this morning for a third attempt at rainmaking in the Catskill Mountains. The rainmakers were frustrated in their latest attempt on Wednesday, March 29, when nature produced her own rain...
Another try at producing rain with dry ice pellets dropped by spout and hopper attachments into the Catskill clouds was curbed by a downpour Thursday, March 23. Only good weather will allow the scientists to try out their $50,000 experiment in a third attempt today...
Last week Dr. Howell, trailed by an entourage of officials and reporters, was hustling around in the snowy Catskills, looking for a mountaintop on which to set up radar equipment (used in spotting rain-laden clouds). The city had made a deal with a Boston weather service to tell them when clouds were heading toward the Catskills; it was converting two of its four police department airplanes to use in dropping dry-ice pellets and silver-iodide ejectors, and two city trucks to use in cloud-tickling from the ground with silver iodide when flying was not feasible...
...such standbys as September in the Rain and East of the Sun, sentimentalists got a straight chorus to hang their memories on before taking off on a jaunt through the weird intervals, lurching rhythms and monotonous riffs of the bop landscape. "The public," Shearing explained, "needs a handle to grab before they'll really catch...
Howell intends to conduct the first tests in the Catskill Mountains, north of the city. Two Police Department planes will scatter the dry ice pellets on cloud formations in hopes of precipating rain...