Word: rainlessness
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...Peru's rainless, guano (dung)covered Chincha Islands, Director Carlos Llosa Belaunde of the semi-official Compañia Administradora del Guano fondly examined a guano sample. His 20 million birds were performing magnificently, producing more & more fertilizer for Peru's irrigated fields. Recently Señor Llosa announced that this year the national guano harvest would be 170,000 tons, up from the 1942 low of 79,000 tons. Chief reasons: a scientific pampering of the guano birds, and the fact that the Peruvian (Humboldt) Current, which sometimes falters, was flowing strong and cold from the Antarctic...
...night was dark but rainless; signal lights showed all clear. The exhausts of two locomotives pulling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle blended in a syncopated roll as the Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer raced west across the Ohio farmlands. But up the line at Coulter, a hamlet far beyond the trembling glare of the Triangle's headlight, the stage was being set for tragedy...
...thunderstorm begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
...millions of dollars nourish endless acres of the finest apple trees in the U.S. In October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire, with volcanic ash, rainless summers and cold autumn nights, to produce apples of such deep and vivid color...
Before leaving we hope the elements will be kind enough to prove to the southerners among us that Longfellow, Whittier, and those boys, really had something to rejoice over in the coming of a New England spring. The nice rainless days will undoubtedly occur when there are no student officers at Briggs. But that's all right; we want Ensigns Gaertner, Homeans, and Corey of the staff to enjoy that interim in which they will not have to stand watch every third night...