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4.3 “The Rain Makers”: “Go up and bust that there cloud over th’ ten-acre field,
Noah—before somebody else gets it; an’ fer th’ love o’ peace, keep off th’ ol’ woman’s
washin’!” (“The Rain Makers,” Life, April 5, 1923, 24)

4.4 The way scientists propose to manufacture clouds and rainfall: “The first plane,
trailing sparking antennae, condenses the soot and moisture laden air into a cloud by
scattering electric charges. The second plane turns this cloud into rain by spraying it
with electrically charged sand.” (McFadden, “Is Rainmaking Riddle Solved?”)