Project Gutenberg 2022-08-24 Public domain in the USA. 105 Merwin, Sam 1910 1996 Merwin, Samuel Kimball, Jr. Ferrat, Jacques Jean Sprague, Carter Climate—disordered $aUnited States :$bBetter Publications, Inc.,$c1948. Produced from Startling Stories, March 1948 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Climate—disordered" by Carter Sprague is a satirical science fiction story published in the mid-20th century. The narrative centers on a public relations expert, Wiley Cordes, who devises a scheme to manipulate weather patterns to create snowstorms over a rival resort city, Burden Bay. The underlying topic explores themes of competition, ethics, and the lengths to which individuals may go for success in the business world. In the story, Wiley Cordes is hired by the Chamber of Commerce in Wheedonville by the Sea to increase its tourist trade, which has suffered due to a series of unfortunate events impacting the town. Utilizing his expertise in promotion, he decides to artificially induce snow in Burden Bay to divert attention and vacationers to Wheedonville. For a time, his plan succeeds, and the town enjoys a thriving tourist season at the expense of Burden Bay. However, Cordes's success is short-lived; eventually, his tactics backfire when the rival town adopts his weather manipulation idea for themselves, leaving Cordes and Wheedonville out in the cold, both literally and figuratively. The story offers a humorous yet cautionary look at ambition and rivalry in the resort industry. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220515094909sprague 1948 US Reading ease score: 69.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Science fiction Short stories Seaside resorts -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour 38208 2025-07-27T08:56:16.935940 text/html 14267 2024-10-19T00:12:46 text/html 419245 2025-07-27T08:56:20.191935 application/epub+zip 418054 2025-07-27T08:56:18.425928 application/epub+zip 219666 2025-07-27T08:56:17.535975 application/epub+zip 1205033 2025-07-27T08:56:21.512951 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1197608 2025-07-27T08:56:19.630959 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 999364 2022-09-30T23:31:27.088528 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 32030 2025-07-27T08:56:16.817950 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12169 2024-10-19T00:12:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16988 2025-07-27T08:56:21.661929 application/rdf+xml 34286 2025-07-27T08:56:17.942931 image/jpeg 5510 2025-07-27T08:56:17.736951 image/jpeg 2247962 2025-07-27T08:56:16.958963 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia