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...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...idea of joining a union appalls many a scientist and engineer. To a professional man this means not merely the surrender of his individual economic rights, to union leaders whom he frequently distrusts. It also means surrender of his self-esteem as an individualist. So most scientists and engineers have shunned C.I.O.'s union (Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians) as well as A.F. of L.'s (International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen...
...scientists hoped to hand Ransom over to Martian colleagues for experimental purposes. In return, one scientist wanted Martian gold. The other wanted to study the possibilities of man's annexing Mars as a breeding ground for a race of new men. But Philologist Ransom escaped his captors...
Americans had called on Marcus before. In 1902 an expedition from Honolulu put in to the island with the hope of finding guano deposits. A Japanese marine force barred them. The Japs finally allowed the party to land under heavy guard, let a scientist pick up some wildlife specimens; then gave them some water and coconuts and sent the whole outfit packing. Forty years later a U.S. task force attacked Marcus and smashed Jap hangars, runways, ammunition dumps (TIME, April 6, 1942). But last week's raid was bigger...
...Famed Scientist Sir Oliver Lodge wrote a book (Raymond) purporting to be conversations with his soldier son, who had been killed in France...