Preliminary Leaching Tests for the Extraction of Uranium From Various Monticello Stockpile Ores (open access)

Preliminary Leaching Tests for the Extraction of Uranium From Various Monticello Stockpile Ores

In a section of the area occupied by the Atomic Energy Commission in Grand Junction, Colorado, a pilot plant is being erected to test a resin-in-pulp process. The process is based on the adsorption of uranium by resin from acid pulps. The first ores to be treated at this plant will be Monticello Stockpile Material. Samples of the various stockpiles sere subjected to a series of leaching, filtering and settling tests, the results of which are presented in this report.
Date: March 2, 1953
Creator: Abrams, Charles S.; Moulton, Harry D. & Viklund, Hans I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2010 Oil Spill: MMS/BOEMRE and NEPA (open access)

The 2010 Oil Spill: MMS/BOEMRE and NEPA

This report reviews the environmental procedures required following the explosion of an oil well on a tract leased by BP from the federal government.
Date: March 2, 2011
Creator: Alexander, Kristina
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plant-Supporting Device (open access)

Plant-Supporting Device

Patent for a simple form of a plant supporting and sticking device for gardeners and agriculturalists, with illustration (lines 10-15).
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Allen, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone (open access)

Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone

Patent for a Combination Fan, Score Card, and Megaphone that combines all of the previous items into one and can be easily and cheaply mass-produced for commercial sale.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Asano, George K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congressional Organization for Science and Technology, 91st Congress, 2nd Session: A Listing of Congressional Committees and Subcommittees Having Jurisdiction over Scientific and Technological Activities (open access)

Congressional Organization for Science and Technology, 91st Congress, 2nd Session: A Listing of Congressional Committees and Subcommittees Having Jurisdiction over Scientific and Technological Activities

This report provides a listing of congressional committees and subcommittees related to science and technology.
Date: March 2, 1970
Creator: Ayton, Mauree W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade Promotion Authority and the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (open access)

Trade Promotion Authority and the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement

This report looks at the effects of the Korean Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) on side agreements via the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Date: March 2, 2011
Creator: Barbour, Emily C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advertising Clock (open access)

Advertising Clock

Patent for an advertising clock. This invention is designed to display advertisement at regular intervals. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Barnett, John Beverly & Turner, W. N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Root Crop Harvester (open access)

Root Crop Harvester

Patent for a root crop harvester. This invention is designed for the harvesting of peanuts, potatoes, sugar beets, turnips, onions, etc. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Bourland, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1930 (open access)

Annual Report of the Boy Scouts of America: 1930

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1930, activities, finance, public relations, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.
Date: March 2, 1931
Creator: Boy Scouts of America
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Uses and Sources of Federal Government Budget Funds (Unified Budget Concept and Federal Funds Basis), Fiscal Years 1971-1973 (open access)

Uses and Sources of Federal Government Budget Funds (Unified Budget Concept and Federal Funds Basis), Fiscal Years 1971-1973

This report is a compilation of information concerning the federal government budget funds in the United States for the years 1971-1973.
Date: March 2, 1972
Creator: Brite, George K. & Oremland, Barbara R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses. (open access)

Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unauthorized Employment in the United States: Issues, Options, and Legislation (open access)

Unauthorized Employment in the United States: Issues, Options, and Legislation

As immigration reform and the illegal alien population have gained congressional and public attention in the past several years, the issue of unauthorized employment has come to the fore. It is widely accepted that most unauthorized aliens enter and remain in the United States in order to work. This report discusses options for addressing the issue of unauthorized employment in the United States.
Date: March 2, 2009
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a new baling press design with description of parts and their functions, with illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bryan, Walter S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Seat Recorder. (open access)

Car Seat Recorder.

Patent for a new and improved car-seat recorder. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the following elements: a car-axle, the depressible car-seat, and the recording apparatus arranged alongside the seat and consisting of friction feed-wheels, a paper strip, meshing spur-gears, and a puncturing device arranged vertically, a lever which operatively connects said seat and apparatus, and gearing which connects the latter with the axle, whereby movement of the car operates said apparatus and enables the record to be made by slitting the strip when the seat is depressed" (lines 22-33).
Date: March 2, 1886
Creator: Bywaters, Joseph K. & Burke, John Y.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S.-Mexican Water Sharing: Background and Recent Developments (open access)

U.S.-Mexican Water Sharing: Background and Recent Developments

This report describes U.S.-Mexican water sharing of the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers pursuant to binational agreements. The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) is charged with addressing issues that arise during application of binational water treaties.
Date: March 2, 2017
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.; Mulligan, Stephen P. & Ribando Seelke, Clare
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine (open access)

Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine

Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Cassel, John L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grass Destroyer (open access)

Grass Destroyer

Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Coker, Alvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives (open access)

Automatically-Adjustable Headlight for Locomotives

Patent for an automatically adjustable headlight for locomotives or streetcars which rotates when the vehicle is tilted going around a curve to allow the light to shine around the curve.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Cooper, William M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
EPA’s Vessel General Permits: Background and Issues (open access)

EPA’s Vessel General Permits: Background and Issues

This report is an overview of the revised VGP for large vessels and two key issues.
Date: March 2, 2015
Creator: Copeland, Claudia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Horseshoeing Device (open access)

Horseshoeing Device

Patent for a horseshoeing device that immobilizes the horse's leg in multiple positions for ease of shoeing.
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Crumley, Birdie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources (open access)

Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Basic Sources

This report introduces selected basic sources that are useful in obtaining background information or specific facts on the status of federal legislative or regulatory initiatives. It includes telephone, online, and media sources are included, as well as pertinent directories, such as those of organizations that track areas of interest. Annotations describing each source's contents and organization are included so that researchers can select those that most closely fit their needs. Internet addresses usually provide information about the items, rather than access to them.
Date: March 2, 2004
Creator: Davis, Carol D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rubberized Fabric and Rubber Tire. (open access)

Rubberized Fabric and Rubber Tire.

Patent for rubberized fabric and rubber tires.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Dees, Mark A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Dewald, Louis & Dewald, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues (open access)

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues

This report examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act's (UMRA's) implementation. It also discusses particular mandates and procedures associated with UMRA, and assesses UMRA's impact on federal mandates and arguments concerning UMRA's future, focusing on UMRA's definitions, exclusions, and exceptions that currently exempt many federal actions with potentially significant financial impacts on nonfederal entities.
Date: March 2, 2016
Creator: Dilger, Robert J. & Beth, Richard S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library