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...careful and skeptical investigation he soon discovered why most efforts had been failures. The commercial rainmakers' favorite method (because it was the cheapest) was to spray silver iodide into the air from ground generators. Dr. Bowen found by actual experiment that ground-generated silver iodide seldom reaches the clouds. He proved further that silver iodide somehow can become inactivated as a rainmaker after less than one hour of exposure to the atmosphere; when it does reach the clouds from the ground, it is usually too old to be effective...
...best way to reach a radio listener's ear is with a headline. In Manhattan last week, the latest Nielsen ratings of radio shows placed a news show, NBC's News of the World (with Morgan Beatty) in the No. i spot, and four others (Lowell Thomas, NBC 8 O'Clock News, Richard Harkness, NBC 7 O'Clock News) in the top ten. In San Francisco Pollster George Gallup warned the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors that radio is a serious news rival; 39 million U.S. homes get a daily newspaper...
MEAT PRICES, which accounted for 20% of cost-of-living index boost since December, will stay high for another year. Livestock herds are low, will not reach another cyclical peak until...
Goal Attained. With all its contracted commitments (including one to purchase 120 million Ibs. within five years from Inco's present facilities), the U.S. is sure to reach its annual supply goal of 440 million Ibs. by 1961. Though nickel is still in short supply and will be for many years, the free world's production is slowly edging up, reached 450 million Ibs. last year v. 1955's 427 million Ibs., and is expected to top 600 million Ibs. by 1960. The price of European and Japanese nickel, which U.S. firms have been forced...
Final Duty. The Japanese army on Leyte has been smashed, and now the survivors are starving and trying to reach the last escape port in small groups. Private Tamura is more expendable than most. He has tuberculosis. His squad leader tells him to go back to the hospital-which has kicked him out after three days-and if he is not readmitted he is to use his last grenade to commit suicide and carry out "your final duty to your country." Taking his final ration of six raw potatoes, Tamura sets off. Aware that the hospital will not take...