Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 20 prewar years Ranney's idea made no headway among oilmen, but he found that his scheme was just as good for tapping sources of water and gas. He drilled Ranney horizontal water wells in London and Lisbon and for 20 U.S. industrial plants, started a $20.000,000 water well in Paris just before the war. In Sydney, Australia, a Ranneywell yields...
Most drastic scheme tried yet: the Miami Herald's plan, launched last week, for printing a twelve-page "Victory Edition," devoid of all advertising except classified, each Monday. The Herald's usual Monday papers have been 20 pages...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
Afrikaners are taking Schumann's scheme seriously. The tall, bearded potential rain maker studied and taught at Yale and other U.S. and German universities, last year got an award from the Royal Meteorological Society of London for his studies of fogs on airdromes. Last week Capetown's City Council was pondering putting up $1,000,000 for the rainmaking apparatus...
...cards-face down. Said he: "We took him out of civilian life when his future was brightest . . . when he returns, we want his outlook and his chances for success to be just as brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad to get, it may set the pattern for the right return of millions to civilian life...