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Papers Prepared for Radiation Effects Review Meeting, Congress Hotel, Chicago, July 31-August 1, 1956

Description: Research in radiation effects on reactor materials is reviewed in ten papers presented by representatives of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, General Electric Company, knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Dattelle Memorial Institute, Brookhaven Nationaal Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Bettis Plant, and Atomic Power Development Associates. Separate abstracts have been prepared for each paper. (T.R.H.)
Date: August 1, 1956
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Statutes At Large, Volume 70A, 1956

Description: United States Statutes at Large include the text of various legislation passed by Congress such as private and public laws, concurrent resolutions, and Constitutional amendments as well as proclamations, changes to the structure of government departments, etc. Title 10 and Title 32 outline the roles of the United States armed forces and the National Guard, respectively.
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Congress.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Substation History: Arizona

Description: This report gives information about the substation present in the state of Arizona from the date it was established through the year 1955.
Date: 1956
Creator: United States. Weather Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trafficability of Soils: A Summary of Trafficability Studies Through 1955

Description: Summary of trafficability studies conducted by the Waterways Experiment Station. It includes information about phase I tests related to "Soil Classification and Trafficability Data" as a sub-project of "Trafficability of Soils as Related to the Mobility of Military Vehicles" (published 1947-1955). It also includes initial results of phase II, "Soils Trafficability Predictions."
Date: December 1956
Creator: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Southwest Retort, Volume 9, Number [3], November 1956

Description: This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters. This issue includes program information for the regional meeting in Memphis, Tennessee.
Date: November 1956
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Southwest Retort, Volume 9, Number 2, October 1956

Description: This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community. Published monthly during long academic semesters.
Date: October 1956
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Growth Based on Corporate Sales for Selected Periods, 1925-1954

Description: The first problem involved in this study is to determine what growth is. The second problem of this thesis is to determine the characteristics of growth during the previous economic epochs. The third problem is to determine what companies are growing. This will be accomplished by the use of a representative list of American corporations.
Date: 1956
Creator: Reasoner, Billy Hayden
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Union Attitudes Toward Job Evaluation

Description: Because union attitude toward formal systems of job evaluation can make or break proposed or existing installations, the ferreting out of these attitudes is of utmost importance in achieving mutual understanding which is necessary for a successful program. The purpose of this study was to determine the consensus of unions toward job evaluation and to obtain some indication of just how wide the variation in attitude actually is.
Date: August 1956
Creator: Noe, Robert M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Development of the Theory of Full Employment

Description: The purpose of this paper is to analyze and to review fundamental ideas and theories of employment and to set forth the policies that can best obtain the goal of full employment, which is defined as the condition where those who want to work at the prevailing rates of pay can find work without undue difficulty.
Date: 1956
Creator: Hughes, James Walter
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An Analysis of the Progress of Unions in Organizing Professional Engineers

Description: The problems of this research report were threefold: 1. To trace the history of the unionization of engineers from its inception to the present time. 2. To present the arguments of those individuals and groups who practice and favor engineering unionization, and to set fort the counter-arguments of those individuals and groups who reject unionization for engineers. 3. To summarize the facts and opinions discovered and, in view of these findings, to draw conclusions on the merits and the trend o… more
Date: 1956
Creator: Montgomery, Austin H.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Comparative Analysis of the Development of High School Library Standards and Certain Associated Factors

Description: The purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the development of high school library standards since 1918 by taking into consideration the factors of rapid growth of high school enrollments, modifications of the basic philosophy of education, and the development of secondary school libraries.
Date: 1956
Creator: Callaway, Ruthie Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Texas Question as a Factor in the Sectional Struggle

Description: "This thesis is an attempt to study the Texas question in its setting with particular emphasis on the sectional ramifications of the issue. It is not an attempt to document the diplomatic negotiations which led to annexation. It is not a attempt to prove that it was the Texas issue which irreconcilably divided the North and South, but it is an effort to assess the importance of the Texas question as a factor in the sectional struggle, by studying the origin, struggle, and climax of the effort t… more
Date: August 1956
Creator: Odom, E. Dale
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effect of Journalism on Modern American Writing

Description: This paper is an analysis of the relationship between journalism and formal literary usage in America. It is the purpose of this study to define and illustrate characteristics of modern journalese and to make a comparison of standards of correct usage advocated by recent textbooks in English composition and journalism. Particular attention will be given to diction, structure and length of sentences, capitalization, abbreviation, and punctuation. The conclusion will be a brief evaluation of mode… more
Date: August 1956
Creator: Estes, Dorothy Southerland
Partner: UNT Libraries
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