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The Development of IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942-1946: A Case Study in the Growth of Organized Labor During World War II
This thesis concentrates on a local union of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), District Lodge 776, of Fort Worth, Texas, during the war years. The main argument of the thesis runs along three basic lines. First, it demonstrates that the experiences of the Fort Worth Machinists clearly fit into the national labor movement during the war years. Second, it argues that the existence, survival, and strength of the union depended greatly on outside forcesan expanding national economy, a powerful national union, and a generally labor-friendly government. Third, it shows that union officers and rank-and-file members used their bases of strengththe national economy, the national IAM, and the federal governmentto build an effective local labor organization.
Date:
August 1999
Creator:
White, Kirk
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Limnological Study of Lake Worth
This thesis presents the results of a three year study devoted to discovering the life and phenomena found in Lake Worth near Fort Worth, Texas.
Date:
August 1939
Creator:
Johns, William Barnette
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Whether or Not the Tarrant County Free Library is Taking Care of the Recreational Reading Interests of the Elementary Pupils in Fourteen Schools of Tarrant County, Texas
A study to determine whether the Tarrant County Free Library is meeting the recreational readying needs of elementary school students.
Date:
August 1939
Creator:
Russ, Catherine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bottom Fauna of Lake Worth
This thesis describes the vertical distribution, quality, and quantity of the fauna found at the bottom of Lake Worth in Texas.
Date:
August 1940
Creator:
Jenkins, Jesse Denney
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Net Plankton Survey of a Small Perennial Pond
This thesis resulted from an examination of Lake Worth plankton in comparison to plankton found in similar bodies of water throughout the United States.
Date:
August 1940
Creator:
Legett, Jesse Harrison
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Analysis of Spelling Achievement in the Ft. Worth, Texas, Elementary Schools
This study presents an efficacy evaluation of language arts instruction in the Fort Worth, Texas elementary schools.
Date:
August 1940
Creator:
Lattimore, Mary E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Pupil-Teacher Ratings of the Amount of Democracy Practiced in the William James Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas
This study undertakes to measure by means of a questionnaire the spirit of democracy in the William James Junior High School of Fort Worth, Texas. The problem was the outgrowth of a personal interest in the boys and girls in the public schools of our nation and a feeling that strict application of the principles of democracy to school practices would result in happier school relationships.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Mayo, Vera
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program
The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the extent of the airplane industry in the immediate area of Fort Worth, Texas, to determine the need, if any, of adding a course in Airplane Industry to the curriculum of the Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Brooks, William A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Student and Teacher Objectives at Brantley-Draughon College, Fort Worth, Texas
This study involves three things: first, a comparison of the general objectives of students and teachers; second, a comparison of jobs wanted by students with jobs for which the teachers think they are training their students; and third, a comparison of student and teacher objectives in the individual subjects.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Cox, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Secretarial and Stenographic Duties and Qualifications in Department Stores in Dallas and Fort Worth
This survey presents views of department store officials on what they expect from their employees in an effort to improve the training of stenographers and secretaries.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Landes, J. D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Foods Served and Purchased in a Fort Worth School Cafeteria Duing the Year 1943-1944
The purpose of this study is to show what foods were made available to the children in the year 1943-1944; what foods the children chose from the available foods; what nutritive value the chosen foods possessed; and what the chosen lunches cost the children.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Bailey, Katherine W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Dark Adaption of Freshman High School Girls and Boys
The children in this study were tested in their normal environment and without any effort to change this environment. It was felt that only through such an experiment could any evidence be gained regarding the influence of climatic conditions on the dark adaption of adolescents.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Williams, Ollie Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Child of Foreign Parentage
It is the purpose of this study to take a group of first, second, and third grade children of foreign parentage who are in a segregated school in Fort Worth, Texas, and a group who are in a non-segregated school and compare them.
Date:
1944
Creator:
Gill, Mary Sodd
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Critical Analysis of Arithmetic Achievement in the Intermediate Grades of the Fort Worth, Texas, Elementary Schools
This thesis looks at what the Forth Worth public schools have accomplished with their revised curriculum in arithmetic, and whether such achievement can be demonstrated.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Payne, Ralph Chesley
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Development of an Intramural Program for Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Boys in the Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas
The purpose of this study is to develop plans for an intramural program for boys in the Paschal High School, Fort Worth, Texas.
Date:
1942
Creator:
Williams, J. R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Spermatophytes of Tarrant County, Texas
The problem consisted of thoroughly exploring Tarrant County, Texas, in an attempt to collect and study critically as many species of Spermatophytes as possible. In addition a thorough examination was made of herbarium specimens assembled from the region by other botanists.
Date:
1943
Creator:
McCart, William Larrey
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Effect of Mobility Upon Achievement and Progress in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas
The problem of this study is to determine the extent of the mobility of pupil population in the East Van Zandt School, Fort Worth, Texas, and the relationship of this mobility to pupil achievement and progress.
Date:
1943
Creator:
Huffaker, Dixie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Evaluation of a Vocational Guidance Project in the Diamond Hill Senior High School Fort Worth, Texas
The purpose here is to evaluate an assigned vocational guidance project in the Diamond Hill Senior High School, Fort Worth, Texas, which was executed in certain English and speech classes.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Wyatt, Verna Wilkinson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Psychological Principles of Learning Used in the Social Studies Curriculum of the Elementary Grades
The problem of this study is to establish criteria of psychological factors that should be included in a social studies educational program of the elementary grades to measure the program planned for the social studies of the elementary grades of the Houston, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Amarillo, Texas, public schools.
Date:
1947
Creator:
Stucker, Myrtle
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Copper and Iron Intake and Hemoglobin of Student Nurses
The object of this study is to determine the effect, if any, of the copper and iron intake upon the hemoglobin levels of student nurses on self-chosen diets.
Date:
1948
Creator:
Badgett, Lula Mae Starnes
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Educational Progress of Under-Age Children
The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between chronological age and reading achievement and between chronological age and personality development in school children.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Tunnell, Lucile Stallings
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Significance of Classroom Environmental Control in the Azle Elementary School
The objective of this investigation was to make two surveys relating to environmental control in the Azle Elementary School, Azle, Texas. The first survey was designed to furnish a list of favorable and unfavorable factors in classroom environment as they existed in the Azle Elementary School at the close of the school session of 1946-1947, and the second survey , conducted in the same school approximately a year later, was for the purpose of ascertaining what improvements had been made in the interim in order to increase the educative values in the classroom environment of this school.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Wood, Roy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
To Determine Factors Associated with Elimination of Students from White Settlement Junior High School
The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of some factors thought to be associated with the elimination of one hundred pupils from the White Settlement Junior High School near Fort Worth, Texas, over a period of three years.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Jolly, Floyd E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the School Program of the White Settlement Junior High School, Tarrant County, Texas
The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to formulate criteria for evaluating the activities of a junior high school, and (2) to determine the extent to which the program of the White Settlement Junior High School, Tarrant County, Texas, meets these criteria. In so doing, attention is given to many phases of the school and its program.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Jolly, Louise
System:
The UNT Digital Library