Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wallace E. Howell '36, will try to make rain for New York City by Sunday, the Blue Hill meteorologist said yesterday...
...will finance the first six months of what may be a year-long experiment. Howell will spot the clouds he wants to bombard by radar. Then he will either shoot rockets or drop pellets into the clouds from airplanes, causing ice formation, which precipitates rain...
...Wallace E. Howell, meteorologist at the Blue Hill Observatory, will conduct a $50,000 rain-making experiment that may end New York City's year-long water shortage, Mayor William O'Dwyer announced yesterday...
...will be the first practical rain-making test in the East. Howell plans to run it whenever conditions are favorable next week. He will shoot fine particles of silver iodide at cold-water clouds to cause condensation and precipitation...
...Dwyer hopes the city's reservoirs can be refilled before heavy Summer consumption begins. In a statement emphasizing the importance of the test the mayor said, "If we succeed in making rain it might well be the experiment that will set a standard in solving water problems in many parts of the world...