Word: pellet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will either stop making rain altogether or try to make rain over your part of the valley, as you choose." The cattlemen chose rain. Last week Pilot Silverthorne gave it to them. Spotting a likely cloud, he hopped into his Lockheed Lodestar, let go with a single Dry Ice pellet fired from a Very pistol. Within three hours, an inch and a half of rain had turned San Pedro's dusty streets into bogs. Bragged Texan Silverthorne: "Say the word and I'll flood the country...
...tactics of the powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...
...tommy-like target rifle works on the principle of the slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...
...rifle, which has a peep sight and range and windage adjustments, is so accurate that a reasonably good shot can hit a thumbnail-sized target at 30 feet. Yet the pellet travels slowly enough to be dangerous only to eyes...
Planned Storms. The "latent heat" liberated by the freezing of the water produced turbulence in the cloud, spreading the reaction through its mass. Schaefer figured that a single pellet falling 2,000 feet through a cloud might produce several tons of snow. Snowmaking will not cure droughts over large areas. It cannot conjure moisture out of an atmosphere which contains too little to precipitate. But possibly farmers in irrigated districts may coax more snow to fall on the mountain areas which feed their ditches...