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Oral History Interview with Gail Halvorsen, March 21, 2016

Description: Interview with Col. Gail Halvorsen, a Air Force veteran from Salt Lake City, Utah, who took part in the Berlin Airlift. Halvorsen discusses his family background, growing up, learning to fly, joining the Air Corps and flying various missions around the Atlantic during WWII, experiences in the Berlin Airlift, and relationships with Germans he affected. In appendix are various photos of and by Halvorsen from throughout his career, and letters he received from German children.
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Date: March 21, 2016
Creator: Moody, Kimberly & Halvorsen, Gail Seymour
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015

Description: Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of mea… more
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Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Diamond Drilling at the Boston Consolidated Copper Mine, Salt Lake County, Utah

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over diamond-drilling projects in Salt Lake County. The geology, physical features, and history of the mines are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: November 1949
Creator: Jones, Robert L. & Wilson, Stephen R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Chloride Volatilization Process of Ore Treatment

Description: From Introduction: "This bulletin aims ti bring the salient features of the process to the attention of metallurgists for the purpose of furnishing information to and receiving comments from interested parties with the ultimate hope that the process will be a commercial success."
Date: 1923
Creator: Varley, Thomas; Barrett, E. P.; Stevenson, C. C. & Bradford, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center with guest Greg Floor

Description: Recording from NPR's "Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center" series. Taylor interviews saxophonist Greg Floor and Floor and the Billy Taylor Trio perform several Jazz tunes in front of a live audience. Also included are the NPR promotional spots from the original program.
Date: 2001
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 & Owens, Tim (Timothy Gene Owens)
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Evaluation of Brine Desulfating Process As Applied To Desalination Phase 1

Description: Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over studies conducted on the desulfating process at desalination plants. As stated in the introduction, "the explicit purpose of this study is to determine whether or not application of the feed-water desulfating process to the feed to a desalting plant will reduce the overall cost of desalted water" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: October 1967
Creator: Ennis, Charles E.; Gelblum, G. P. & Pechenick, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Innovations in the Metallurgy of Lead

Description: From Introduction: "The data reported in this bulletin are largely the result of experiments conducted by the Salt Lake City station of the Bureau of Mines in cooperation with the department of metallurgical research of the University of Utah. The work on the lead is the only one of the phases of the investigations carried on at that station during the years 1914 to 1916."
Date: 1918
Creator: Lyon, Dorsey A. & Ralston, Oliver C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mining and Preparing Domestic Graphite for Crucible Use

Description: From Prefactory Statement: "In this bulletin are presented the results obtained in the first two phases of the work outlined above. The bulletin is in two parts. The first part describes the methods of mining and milling used, suggests a standard method of sampling finished graphite, and describes a rapid and convenient method of analysis developed at the Pittsburgh station of the Bureau of Mines, to which has been assigned the analytical and microscopic work. The second part describes experime… more
Date: 1920
Creator: Dub, George D. & Moses, Frederick G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimum Operation of Desalting Plants as a Supplemental Source of Safe Yield

Description: From Summary: "The Operating Rule Program receives focus in this report. It is written in Fortran IV computer language and consists of about 1,700 statements. Principles results of the application of the program are summarized in Table 1 for the three systems analyzed."
Date: April 1970
Creator: Clyde, Calvin G. & Blood, Wesley H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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