Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murder? One midnight soon afterward, the doctor, the lawyer and eight witnesses went into a snow-covered country cemetery to dig up the woman's body. The young doctor's autopsy, performed in a nearby shed, proved to the court that death had been caused by drowning and not by poison. The lawyer's client was acquitted. "All at once," says Dr. Gradwohl now, "it struck me with great force how much could depend on the proper scientific inquiry into the cause of sudden death." Last week, Dr. Gradwohl made the same point in Chicago...
William Vittoni and Joseph Vowels were working for North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, Calif. Their business was making rain or snow by seeding susceptible clouds with silver iodide particles. Last week they took their apparatus by auto and trailer close to the summit of a 3,700-ft. mountain near Santa Barbara, and started grinding out silver iodide to fulfill a contract with the city. "Each time we turned on the machine," said Vittoni, "we found ourselves in the center of a miniature snowstorm...
...space of a few heartbeats, Hoel's broad skis floated him against the press of the air. Then, at the last moment, his skis came gracefully down, smacked crisply into the packed snow, 226 ft. from the takeoff. The style judges thought it was a fine jump too. They gave Hoel (rhymes with pool) a score of 55.5 out of an "impossible...
...more than $100 million in military orders, many of them for his HRP-2 "flying banana," a 54-ft., twin-rotored machine which carries 16 combat soldiers and a two-man crew. Other Piasecki models: the 20-passenger H-21, equipped with pontoons for rescue work on snow, ice, water or marsh; the experimental XH-16, with a fuselage as big as a DC-4, and a detachable cargo "pod" the size of a Greyhound...
Something for Everyone. In Milwaukee, the city council, to aid in snow removal, passed an ordinance prohibiting parking for more than 24 hours, then decided to wait until the worst of the winter is over before putting the law into effect, because "during the winter a lot of people can't start their cars...