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38. “Sykes Sells Sunshine,” 40; Spence, Rainmakers, 128–131.
39. Liebling, Honest Rainmaker, 38.
40. “Belmont Park to Test Rainmaker’s Magic,” New York Times, September 10, 1930, 23;
“Rainmaker Fails in Test,” New York Times, September 16, 1930, 11; Liebling, Honest
Rainmaker, 47–48.
41. Goodstein, “Tales in and out of ‘Millikan’s School,’” n.p.
42. Fleming, “Sverre Petterssen,” 79.
43. Petterssen, Weathering the Storm, 181–182.
44. DuBridge interview.
45. Roger Hammond to Irving Langmuir, February 3, 1950, copy in Vonnegut Papers.
46. Willard Haselbach, “‘Rain Maker of the Rockies’: History’s Biggest Weather Experi-
ment Underway,” Denver Post, April 22, 1951, 17A.
47. “Brief History of Artificial Weather”; Changnon, “Paradox of Planned Weather
Modification,” 29.
48. James Y. Nicol, “Weather’s Miracle Man,” Star Weekly Magazine, April 6, 1957,
10–11.
49. Kobler, “Stormy Sage,” 69–70.
50. Bundgaard and Cale, “Irving P. Krick.”
51. “Biography,” Wilhelm Reich Museum, http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org/
biography.html (accessed January 20, 2010).
52. “Cloudbuster.”
53. “Goodbye Chemtrails.”
54. Webb County Commissioners, “official Minutes,” April 14, 2003.
55. Raul Casso, Webb County, Texas, chief of staff (2003), in Berler, KGNS-TV
broadcasts.
56. Berler, KGNS-TV broadcasts.
57. Guerra, “Stormy Weather,” 6.
58. McAdie, “Natural Rain-makers,” 77.
59. Carpenter, “Alleged Manufacture of Rain,” 376–377.
60. Jordan, “Art of Pluviculture.”
61. Humphreys, Rain Making, vii.
62. National Academy of Sciences, Critical Issues, 3–4.
63. Fleming, “Fixing the Weather”; Fleming, “The Pathological History.”

4. foggy thinking

1. McAdie, “Control of Fog,” 36.
2. Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2, scene 2; Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 12;
Doyle, Study in Scarlet, 27.
3. Abbe, “Tugrin Fog Dispeller,” 17.
4. Williams, Climate of Great Britain, cited in Jankovic, Reading the Skies, 1.
5. Fleming, Meteorology in America, 26–27.
6. Lodge, “Electrical Precipitation,” 34.

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