Weather Modification: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on S. 23 and S. 2916, Bills Relating to Weather Modification |
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... evaluate the success of any weather modification operations . The lack of adequate measuring devices appears to have been the fault throughout the last 20 years . Many claims have been made by cloud seeders and others . However , there ...
... evaluate the success of any weather modification operations . The lack of adequate measuring devices appears to have been the fault throughout the last 20 years . Many claims have been made by cloud seeders and others . However , there ...
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... evaluate the success . What do you mean ? Mr. HEAD . I am not a scientist nor an expert in this field , but it is my understanding from talking to scientists that they need certain instrumentation and gaging of the streams to properly ...
... evaluate the success . What do you mean ? Mr. HEAD . I am not a scientist nor an expert in this field , but it is my understanding from talking to scientists that they need certain instrumentation and gaging of the streams to properly ...
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... evaluate the work . Some ranchers felt that precipitation had been increased while others felt that it hadn't . Such projects are costly and usually inconclusive . With this in mind , in 1961 , the Nevada State Legislature authorized ...
... evaluate the work . Some ranchers felt that precipitation had been increased while others felt that it hadn't . Such projects are costly and usually inconclusive . With this in mind , in 1961 , the Nevada State Legislature authorized ...
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... evaluate the influences of weather modification techniques from normal weather patterns much more engineering and direct measurement programs are called for , and this means adequate fund- ing over sufficiently extended periods of time ...
... evaluate the influences of weather modification techniques from normal weather patterns much more engineering and direct measurement programs are called for , and this means adequate fund- ing over sufficiently extended periods of time ...
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... evaluate it . This project is seeding two areas , one north and one south of Elko , alternately , in suitable weather , to determine the effect of cloud seeding by silver iodide generators on the ground , and we won't have the results ...
... evaluate it . This project is seeding two areas , one north and one south of Elko , alternately , in suitable weather , to determine the effect of cloud seeding by silver iodide generators on the ground , and we won't have the results ...
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Page 33 - US SENATE, COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 am, in room 5110, New Senate Office Building, the Honorable Howard W. Cannon presiding. Senator CANNON. The hearing will come to order.
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