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22. Schaefer interview.
23. Schaefer Laboratory Notebook, July 31, 1946, Schaefer Papers.
24. Schaefer to Suits, october 10, 1946, Schaefer Papers.
25. Croy, “Rainmakers,” 214.
26. Press release, November 13, 1946, GE Archives.
27. “Scientist Creates Real Snowflakes,” New York Times, November 14, 1946, 33.
28. Press release, November 13, 1946, GE Archives; Schaefer, “Production of Ice Crys-
tals”; Byers, “History of Weather Modification.”
29. Schaefer Laboratory Notebook, November 13, 1946, Schaefer Papers.
30. Suits to V. H. Fraenckel, November 13, 1946, Schaefer Papers.
31. Press release, November 14, 1946, GE Archives.
32. New York Times, November 15, 1946, 24; Boston Globe, November 15, 1946, 1.
33. Schaefer Papers.
34. General Electric Corporation, 56th Annual Report, 27.
35. Fleming, “Fixing the Weather,” 177.
36. Goldstein to GE, November 18, 1946, copy in Schaefer Papers.
37. Goldston, “Legal Entanglements”; Langmuir, “Summary of Results.”
38. Havens, “History of Project Cirrus,” 13.
39. “Interim Report.”
40. “Project Cirrus” (1952), 13.
41. “Law Asked to Bar Suits Against the Rainmakers,” New York Times, January 13, 1949,
25.
42. “Many Legal Entanglements.”
43. “Project Cirrus” (1950), 287.
44. Schaefer interview; Droessler, “Federal Government Activities,” 253.
45. Doubleday, “Air Force Activities”; Byers, “History of Weather Modification,” 16–17.
46. News clippings, including New York Times, october 12, 1947, 24; Albany Times-
Union, october 12, 1947, n.p.; Christian Science Monitor, october 14, 1947, 10; Los
Angeles Times, october 14, 1947, 1, Schaefer Papers.
47. Larry Murray, “Hurricane Study only Begun, Says Schaefer,” october 17, 1947, clip-
ping in Schaefer Papers.
48. Langmuir, “Growth of Particles,” 183–185.
49. Enders to Suits, November 13, 1947, with clipping enclosed, “Dry Ice and a Crazy
Hurricane,” Schaefer Papers.
50. Schaefer, “Preliminary Report.”
51. Langmuir, “Growth of Particles,” 185.
52. Richard Gray, “U.S. Government Aims to Tame Hurricanes,” Daily Telegraph,
August 2, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk.
53. Vonnegut, “Nucleation of Ice,” 593–595.
54. Vonnegut interview.
55. Vonnegut Laboratory Notebook, November 1946, Vonnegut Papers.
56. Vonnegut interview.
57. Press release, october 21, 1947, GE Archives.
58. Vonnegut interview.
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