Word: weather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haylifts. Westerners-with eleventh-hour aid from state and federal governments-began a grim and final battle with the weather. The most spectacular was "Operation Haylift"-the Air Force's attempt to feed more than a million sheep and 100,000 cattle marooned in distant and desolate corners of Nevada and Utah...
...visitors to Yenan described Mao as a heavy-set man (5 ft. 8 in., 200 lbs.) with the humor, the strength and often the manner of a Chinese peasant. He frequently sat with his feet propped on the table, and in warm weather he unceremoniously stripped to the waist. Once, in Yenan in the presence of General Lin Piao, president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could...
...clear weather...
...Weather Bureau has little faith in weather control. Last year the weathermen announced that they had tried seeding clouds with dry ice and found the trick does not work (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week the bureau's chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences that man-made weather is a very unreliable project. The dry ice method may work locally under special conditions, said Reichelderfer, but the physical forces in full-scale weather are too big to be affected...
...mistake of unskilled rainmakers, Langmuir explained, looking coldly at the Weather Bureau, is that they don't pick the right kind of cloud. Unless at least part of the cloud is below freezing, the dry ice will not work. Another mistake: using too much dry ice. A few pounds per mile are usually enough. If the plane dumps too much, too many ice particles are formed. They are so light that they do not fall. The overdose of dry ice merely turns the cloud of water droplets into a cloud of floating ice crystals...