SNOW TO ORDER
WESTERN ELECTRIC SUCCESS FAR-REACHING PRACTICAL POSSIBILITIES ('Rec. 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 14. The General Electric Company has announced that it has succeeded in transforming an ordinary cloud into snow by sprinkling dry ice pellets from an aeroplane flying above the cloud. Practical applications are foreseen, for "the discovery would produce snow in regions where clouds do not produce precipitation, thus permitting the storing of a supply of moisture for feeding irrigation and, water projects in spring time. It will also make clouds destined for urban areas produce snow elsewhere, thus alleviating the urban snow removal problem, and will produce snow at winter resorts. It is estimated that in a fivehour flight a single aeroplane could produce hundreds of millions of tons of show over a. large area, although this may mean only a few inches of snow on the ground.
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Evening Star, Issue 25950, 15 November 1946, Page 7
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143SNOW TO ORDER Evening Star, Issue 25950, 15 November 1946, Page 7
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