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...Meteorologist Wallace C. Howell '36 leaves for New York this morning for a third attempt at rainmaking in the Catskill Mountains. The rainmakers were frustrated in their latest attempt on Wednesday, March 29, when nature produced her own rain...
...Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained meteorologist, Dr. Wallace Howell...
...protect itself, the city was trying to get a bill passed banning damage suits based on artificial rains. The Republican administration countered with a bill which would give the state complete control over all artificial rainmaking. Undisturbed by such legalisms Meteorologist Howell pressed on with his plans, hoped to begin "stimulating" clouds this week. If his rainmaking solved New York's shortage, it might affect the fortunes of all the world's cities. If the competition became keen, it would also raise a horrendous lawyer's question: Who owns the clouds...
...University's solution to the New York water problem--Blue Hills meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36--was back home yesterday, waiting for "the right weather conditions" to make his first try at rain production...
University meteorologist Wallace E. Howell '36 arrived back in Cambridge early this morning after a one-inch rainfall yesterday in New York made his services temporarily unnecessary...