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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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Aviation Gasoline and its Component Hydrocarbons: Wartime Research (1940-45)

Description: From Scope and Plan: "As the table of contents indicates, the present report summarizes the important data obtained from the research on aviation gasoline during the period 1940-45, exclusive of the data on jet-propulsion fuels. The report is divided into an introduction giving the historical background for the work, two chapters, and an appendix. The first chapter presents the data in a series of 15 tables carefully cross-indexed and supplemented by 19 charts showing the composition of as many… more
Date: 1951
Creator: Smith, H. M.; Kraemer, A. J. & Thorne, H. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of blade cooling to gas turbines

Description: From Summary: "A review of the status of the knowledge on turbine-blade cooling and a description of pertinent NACA investigations are presented. The current limitations in performance of uncooled and cooled engines are briefly discussed. Finally, the knowledge available and investigations to increase the knowledge on heat transfer, cooling-flow, and performance characteristics of cooled turbines are discussed."
Date: May 31, 1950
Creator: Ellerbrock, Herman H., Jr. & Schafer, Louis J., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Trace Elements Reconnaissance on the South Fork of Quartz Creek, Northeastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Description: Abstract: "Two uranium-bearing minerals, uranothorianite and thorite(?), were found in the stream gravels of the main branch of the South Fork of Quartz Creek, a tributary of the Kiwalik River. Although the bedrock source of the minerals was not located, the radioactive material was traced in slope wash well above the stream gravel. A detailed investigation of the area with more sensitive counters might reveal the source of the minerals and localities where the minerals are sufficiently concent… more
Date: May 1950
Creator: Killeen, P. L. & White, M. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Index to Geological Survey Trace Elements Reports on Alaska for the Period January 1945-December 1952

Description: From introduction: Since 1945 the Alaskan Trace Elements Unit of the U. S. Geological. Survey has been engaged in reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in Alaska, first on behalf of the Manhattan Engineer District, later on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission. During the period January 1945 through December 1952, 42 reports in the Survey's Trace Elements Investigations series and 18 reports in the Trace Elements Memorandum series, a totaJ of 60 reports, have been completed or are in prepar… more
Date: February 1953
Creator: Bates, Robert Glenn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Call Number, Volume 17, Number 7, April 1956

Description: Newsletter "issued monthly during the regular session by the students in the Department of Library Service, North Texas State College, Denton, Texas" (p. 25). The periodical contains news items; announcements; a list of "Distinguished Children's Books of 1955" and "Interesting Adult Books of 1955 for Young People"; and personals concerning students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Date: 1956
Creator: North Texas State College. Library Service Department.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Education of Women in Texas

Description: Study of the history of women's education in Texas. This work discusses the foundations of education in Texas and the factors that influenced the growth of women's education within the state. The index begins on page 179.
Date: 1957
Creator: Aiken, Wreathy Price
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Hematological Investigation of the Atomic Bomb Sufferers in Hiroshima and Nagasaki City

Description: Report presenting a hematological view of clinical data related to acute and subacute radiation injuries caused by atomic bomb detonations in Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki City (August 9, 1945), Japan. It includes data and observations of more than 4,000 case records collected between September 1945 and October 1947.
Date: 1952
Creator: Kikuchi, Takehiko & Wakisaka, Gyoichi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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