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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graham's Yankee Stadium throng last year-100,000, and 10,000 turned away-was small by comparison. From 48 states and 122 foreign countries, Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered 194,000 strong. For eight days they packed both ballparks in a "giant Bible school." Through steamy rain they went on singing hymns, praying, hearing speeches and reports about the fast-growing sect (total members: 719,000) that believes Armageddon is just around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marching to Armageddon | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Almost no one east of the Rockies needs to be told that summer 1958 has been a season of abnormal rain, overcast skies and generally cooler temperatures, but last week meteorologists were ready to fix the blame. Principal culprit: the band of planetary winds that flow eastward across the North American continent at 10,000 to 40,000 ft. The planetary winds ordinarily stay far north in summer, allowing warm air to flow up freely from the South. But this summer, for reasons unknown, the winds have veered far southward into the U.S. middle, dragging with them cold northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Long Wet Summer | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...floods are the worst in 45 years, and the state's wheat crop this harvest may be only half the 38 million bu. estimated earlier. In North Dakota's Red River Valley, corn that stood 30 in. tall a year ago is 19 in. because of rain, chill and lack of sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Long Wet Summer | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...more books than ever. Once they defined the wet summer's cause, meteorologists last week volunteered more bad news. The stubborn planetary winds show no sign of changing their tactics. Early August forecast for the northern U.S. east of the Rockies and for mildewing Midwesterners in particular: more rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Long Wet Summer | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Part of the water in the steam, says McCabe, is "juvenile water" which comes out of the magma or the rock around it. The rest is rain water that seeps into the ground and turns to steam when it reaches hot rock. The steam contains less than 1% of noncondensable gases, mostly carbon dioxide, and no corrosive minerals. For the time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Roles for Fumaroies | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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