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Wak-a-dah-ha-hee, 21–22 Widener, Joseph E., 98
Walker, Constance, 233 Williams, John, 110–111
Walker, Gabrielle, 263–264 Williamsom, J. D., 57–58
Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, 44–45 Williamson, Jack, 25
war, 61–64, 166–167. See also military Wilson, Margaret Adelaide, 38–39, 48
“War Against Hail” (Mann), 196 WMo. See World Meteorological
War and the Weather (Powers), 61 organization
Ward, Robert DeCourcy, 235–236 Wood, Lowell, 256–257, 260
Warner Brothers, 44–45 Wood, Robert Williams, 35–36, 48
Warren, L. Francis, 7, 110, 112–122, 136, 235, World Bank, 246
265 World Meteorological organization
Washington, George, 167 (WMo), 6, 105, 215, 225–226; Global
Washington Post (newspaper), 176, 179 Atmospheric Research Programme,
waste heat, 236, 238, 241 187
Waterman, Alan T., 140, 173 World Peril of 1910, The (Griffith), 33
Water Resources Corporation of Denver, World’s Fair, 132
160 Worlds in the Making (Arrhenius), 5
waterspouts, 80, 80 World War I, 169
WDA. See Weather Distributing World War II, 100, 128–132, 167, 169
Administration World Weather Bureau, 194
weather, 6; engineering of, 262; reports, 53; World Weather Watch (WWW), 215–216,
superstitions and fallacies about, 135; in 240
war, 166–167; as weapon, 174–177, 175, Wreck of the South Pole, The (Hahn), 30,
179–186, 189 48
Weather Distributing Administration Wright, orville, 115–116
(WDA), 135–136 Wulf, oliver, 220, 222
“Weather Modification” (Rodin and Hess), WWW. See World Weather Watch
210, 211
Weaver, Warren, 101 Yates, Allan, 161
Wegener, Alfred, 123, 140 Yudin, M. I., 240
Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process, 123
Weinberg, Alvin, 8 zinc oxide (Zno), as cloud-seeding agent,
Weld, Tuesday, 42 172
Wells, H. G., 46 Zoroastrianism, 97
Welsbach Patent, 265 Zubrin, Robert, 25
Westchester Racing Association, 98 Zuni (North American Indians), 43
Westmoreland, William, 180–181 Zworykin, Vladimir K., 12, 140, 192–194,
Wexler, Harry, 6–7, 12, 177, 189–190, 210, 222, 224
212–224, 221, 222, 237

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