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When the rough riders have flown for a few more years, Weather Bureau experts believe that meteorologists will be able to pick with certainty the specific thunderclouds that will spawn twisters. Next step will be to exercise a sort of birth control over the violent storms, which last year killed 49 people in the U.S. and did at least $50 million worth of damage. No one knows yet how this control can be accomplished, but Bureau Meteorologist Clayton Van Thullenar says: "If we were not dreamers to some extent, we wouldn't be doing this...
...Royce predicted, the rush came. At first fishermen were limited by state conservation regulations to fishing only one day a week. Then, as the number of salmon grew, the limits were dropped for fear the spawning grounds might become too crowded. Because the fishermen were prepared with extra help, they hauled in salmon until the canneries could not process any more. In all, some 40 million salmon coursed through Bristol Bay, bound for the clear headwaters of the Kvichak, Nushagak and Ugashik rivers to spawn and die. Nearly 15 million were caught...
...riverbanks through drifts of snow, shiver for hours in near-zero weather temperatures, often squinting at his line through a needling spray of sleet. For only in winter's nadir does Europe's mightiest game fish begin to strike as it gets ready to spawn in the spring. And only when the weather is abominable-visibility poor, the river lashed by storm-will the wary huchen flash up to hit a lure...
...Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest and only brewery as a fitting prelude to Oregon's glorious 1959 centennial celebration. Just picture what reforestation will do for Times Square! Cool and green, teeming with game, salmon swimming up Pepsi Cola sign to spawn...
...reduced building Lime from eight years to five. Equally important, Kaiser's Volta plan would slash power costs-now 23 mills per kw-h in Ghana-to 2 or 2½ mills for aluminum processors, 6 or 7 mills for others. Such a price is reasonable enough to spawn a whole family of new industries in Ghana...