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Show Mankind Yet May Have Weather Made to Order the tornado-busting theories of a contributor con-tributor who has even more Ingenious plans for worsting the wind. He proposes pro-poses a system of underground conduits con-duits with occasional upright air shafts. A tornado, striking such a shaft, in his opinion, would suck Into Itself a volume of air that would destroy de-stroy the vacuum of which tornadoes are made and Immediately deflate the storm. The rainmaker is no longer the only dispenser of tailor-made weather, according ac-cording to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Counterpart of the gentry who once roamed the prairies in dry year3, and bombarded the heavens for moisture, at the behest and after the payment of drought-stricken communities, Is the Porto Rlcan tornado buster. The theory Is that a shell exploded In a tornado will break it up. The theory sounds just as plausible as the rainmaker's rain-maker's conviction that a similar operation oper-ation would jolt the sky into surrendering surren-dering a thunder shower. Tlio Porto Pico Progress, only English Eng-lish periodical on the island, presents |