Rain Making Efforts Grow Into Large Scale Tests
A dawn of weather control emerges as scientists, farmers, and military researchers push cloud seeding with dry ice and silver iodide. From Dr. Vincent Schaefer’s freezer experiments to the Arizona Tucson IAP radar project, efforts seek to trigger rain, reduce droughts, or alter storm paths while critics warn results remain inconclusive.
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Ariz
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Sloan Foundation of New York
Air Force
Woman Praises Crew After Fire On Norwegian Motorship Tourcoing
American passenger Mrs. Thomas J. Gillooly of Clarksburg West Virginia praised the discipline of the Tourcoing crew after a June 5 fire at sea one day out of Aden. The ship reached Hong Kong from Singapore this week. The blaze in No 5 held for 10 hours amid a storm left about 190 tons of cargo including timber steel sheets and paper destroyed. Mrs Gillooly travels to Manila to visit her son Lt John F Gillooly in the U S Navy. another son Thomas J Gillooly Jr is West Virginia insurance commissioner.
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Exchange students spark two engagements across oceans
Esther Beckstead of Wilson High School Long Beach and Janine Veteranian of Paris exchanged schools. Janine became engaged to American surgeon Dr Harold Peters of Los Angeles and plans a France honeymoon. Esther may wed a European lawyer her mother met abroad.
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Janine
Harold Peters
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Europe
Cancer Fund Boosted by Italian Welfare Council
CHICAGO Italian Welfare Council founded in 1946 to help Italian Americans voted Monday night to dissolve and donate all assets totaling 400000 dollars to the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research. Council president Anthony V. Champagne said the distribution will do the greatest good, the group had 621 members.
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