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National Motor-Gasoline Survey: Summer 1947

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on the motor-fuels sold during the summer months of 1947. The types of fuels sold, and characteristics of the fuel samples obtained are listed. This report includes tables, and graphs.
Date: January 1948
Creator: Blade, O. C.
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Evaluation of Gust and Draft Velocities from Flights of P-61C Airplanes within Thunderstorms August 13, 1947 to August 15, 1947 at Clinton County Army Air Field, Ohio

Description: The gust and draft velocities from records of NACA instruments installed in P-61C airplanes participating in thunderstorm flights at Clinton County Army Air Field, Ohio, from August 13, 1947 to August 15, 1947 are presented.
Date: February 2, 1948
Creator: Funk, Jack
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Nuclear Reactor Project Progress Report, January 1948

Description: This report is a progress report detailing operations and ongoing projects at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The report describes new developments with buildings and progress regarding ongoing experiments. The report includes photographs showing progress in the construction of the reactor and other images and figures that accompany the descriptions of projects.
Date: January 1, 1948
Creator: Borst, L. B. & Fox, Marvin
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Trace Elements Reconnaissance of the Southern Highway Belt, South-Central Alaska

Description: Abstract: A radiometric reconnaissance of the areas adjacent to the principal highways and secondary roads of south-central Alaska was carried out during the summer of 1947. The investigation included the examination of nine gold-placer workings, five gold lodes, a gypsum mine, and a copper prospect. Nearly all of the lithologic types outcropping in the highway belt were tested. No significant amounts of radioactive material were found.
Date: May 1950
Creator: Moxham, R. M.
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Report of Petroleum and Natural-Gas Division: Fiscal Year 1947

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the work completed by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Division during 1947. Petroleum engineering studies and natural gas field studies are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Cattell, Roscoe Arnold
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Report of the Thirty-Third National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1947

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: September 1948
Creator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
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Electromagnetic Flowmeter

Description: The following report documents progress the development of an electromagnetic flowmeter that measures the flow of half alloy, covering the period for March 1 to November 30, 1947.
Date: 1952
Creator: Barnes, A. H.; Whitham, G. K. & Smith, F. A.
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NBS-INA -- The Institute for Numerical Analysis -- UCLA 1947-1954

Description: Abstract: This is the history of the Institute for Numerical Analysis (INA) with special emphasis in its research program during the period 1947 to 1956. The Institute for Numerical Analysis was located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was a section of the National Applied Mathematics Laboratories, which formed the Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and technology), under the U.S. Department of … more
Date: August 1991
Creator: Hestenes, Magnus Rudolph & Todd, John
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An 8-Foot Axisymmetrical Fixed Nozzle for Subsonic Mach Numbers Up to 0.99 and for a Supersonic Mach Number of 1.2

Description: From Introduction: "This paper, which should be of interest to those concerned with transonic wind tunnels, covers the design and operating characteristics of the nozzle."
Date: February 23, 1950
Creator: Ritchie, Virgil S.; Wright, Ray H. & Tulin, Marshall P.
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Reconnaissance Investigations for Uranium in the Colorado Front Range and Adjacent Areas, 1947-1951

Description: Report discussing a geological examination to find uranium deposits in the Colorado Front Range and adjacent areas from 1947-1951. "The investigations consisted chiefly of spot-checking mine dumps, outcrops, and road cuts, and included examination of stream beds, mill tailing ponds, and radioactivity traversing of selected surface areas, and mine workings."
Date: May 1956
Creator: King, Robert U.
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Progress Report for the Month of April, 1947

Description: This report covers progress in chemical and spectrographic analysis, chemical work, beta-counting methods of analysis, and ore-dressing and pyrometallurgical studies.
Date: April 30, 1947
Creator: Center, E. J.; Nelson, H. R.; Pray, H. A. & Richardson, A. C.
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