Moscow, July 7.
The Soviet "rain makers institute" set up last year in the drought-ridden cotton district of Usbekistan, to-day officially reports the first practical result of artificial rain. The director of the institute, Professor Gurdon, claims that he! manufactured tgr-Fential rain for 45 minutes over an area of one and a half square kilometers.
The downpour on demand was attained by the chemical production and distribution of a special type of gas which favours the formation of a Particularly humid air. The resulting miniature rain clouds are then forced to deposit their water load by means of a high power electric discharge. 'The report concludes that in spite of the effectiveness of the method, it 1s not adapted to practical large scale {playing bridge with a number of Japplication due' to the enormous expense—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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