Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2017 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative Ernest Bailes: Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2017

Newsletter of Ernest Bailes for his constituents in district 18 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on the filing of bill to address public school accountability, the Dayton train, an update on Constable Justin Johnstone, the filed bill to protect ecological resources, the celebration of General Sam Houston, Child Protective Services, Daylight Savings Time, the House and Senate bills on high speed railways, and Bailes' appointment to the subcommittee.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Bailes, Ernest James, IV
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a quilting frame that has "a novel means of supporting and tilting the track, and also other features" (lines 15-16). The frame is suspended in a track, and the track can be tilted so the frame can run in bot directions on the track.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Banker, John P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie And Brace (open access)

Rail Tie And Brace

Patent for rail tie and braces. This invention is designed to couple opposite rails of the road-beds of railways allowing them to be adjusted as occasion requires. Illustration included.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Barnes, Ned E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Investigation of Scaling of Zirconium at Elevated Temperatures. Quarterly Status Report No. 11, December 2, 1955 to March 2, 1956 (open access)

An Investigation of Scaling of Zirconium at Elevated Temperatures. Quarterly Status Report No. 11, December 2, 1955 to March 2, 1956

This technical report reports progress in the following areas: (1) Effect of scaling time; (2) Influence of specimen shape; (3) Effect of pretreatment; (4) Possible mechanism of growth; and (5) Future work.
Date: March 13, 1956
Creator: Barrett, C. A. & Evans, E. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Program Spending: What's Permitted Under the Uruguay Round Agreements (open access)

Farm Program Spending: What's Permitted Under the Uruguay Round Agreements

This report discusses farm income and commodity price support proposals that might succeed the programs due to expire in 2002. A key question being asked of virtually every new proposal is how it will affect U.S. commitments under the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA), which commitsthe United States to spend no more than $19.1 billion annually on domestic farm supports most likely to distort trade. The URAA spells out the rules for countries to determine whether their policies are potentially trade distorting, and to calculate the costs.
Date: March 13, 2001
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits President Trump (open access)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits President Trump

This report discusses the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with President Donald Trump at the White House on March 17, 2017.
Date: March 13, 2017
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wood-Boring Machine. (open access)

Wood-Boring Machine.

Patent for a wood boring machine "which is especially adapted to bore holes of extreme length in columns or like structural members by cutting away only a portion of the wood forming hole in same" (lines 11-15).
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Bible, Hunley & Robinson, Lee A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics (open access)

Improvement in Measuring Packaged Fabrics

Patent for an improved device to measure textiles and other similar fabrics, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 13, 1877
Creator: Bond, Virgil A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
District of Columbia School Reform Proposals: Congress’s Possible Role in the Legislative Process (open access)

District of Columbia School Reform Proposals: Congress’s Possible Role in the Legislative Process

None
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Boyd, Eugene
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community Development Block Grants: Neighborhood Stabilization Program; Assistance to Communities Affected by Foreclosures (open access)

Community Development Block Grants: Neighborhood Stabilization Program; Assistance to Communities Affected by Foreclosures

Report regarding the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, P.L. 110-289, which allocates federal financial aid to all state and local governments with high amounts of foreclosed homes, subprime mortgage loans, and delinquent home mortgages. The report focuses on the assistance that aids in aquiring, rehabilitating, and reselling foreclosed and abandoned homes.
Date: March 13, 2009
Creator: Boyd, Eugene & Gonzales, Oscar R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sheet-Placing Machine. (open access)

Sheet-Placing Machine.

Patent for improvements in sheet-placing machines for pushing and pulling devices to their correct orientation of oil tanks (lines 10-13) roof construction without the possibility of injury to mechanics.
Date: March 13, 1923
Creator: Brock, Verita Belle
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dispensing Liquids (open access)

Dispensing Liquids

Patent for device used to dispense liquids such as gasolene or the like.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Bruce, Thomas S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification (open access)

Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification

This report discusses E-Verify, a program in which participating employers submit information about their new hires (name, date of birth, Social Security number, immigration/citizenship status, and alien number, if applicable) from the I-9 form. This information is automatically compared with information in Social Security Administration and, if necessary, DHS databases to verify identity and employment eligibility.
Date: March 13, 2009
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homosexuals and U.S. Military Policy: Current Issues (open access)

Homosexuals and U.S. Military Policy: Current Issues

This report discusses policy towards homosexuals in the U.S. military service. In 1993, new laws and regulations pertaining to homosexuals and U.S. military service came into effect reflecting a compromise in policy. This compromise, colloquially referred to as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” holds that the presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion which are the essence of military capability. Service members are not to be asked about nor allowed to discuss their homosexuality. This compromise notwithstanding, the issue has remained politically contentious.
Date: March 13, 2006
Creator: Burrelli, David F. & Dale, Charles V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excavator. (open access)

Excavator.

Patent for Excavator
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Butterfield, Charles S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA): Army Corps of Engineers Authorization Issues in the 109th Congress (open access)

Water Resources Development Act (WRDA): Army Corps of Engineers Authorization Issues in the 109th Congress

The Corps is a federal agency in the Department of Defense with military and civilian responsibilities. At the direction of Congress, the Corps plans, builds, operates, and maintains a wide range of water resources facilities in U.S. states and territories.
Date: March 13, 2006
Creator: Carter, Nicole T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wire Stretcher (open access)

Wire Stretcher

Patent for a wire stretching tool.
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Clack, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adoption Tax Benefits: An Overview (open access)

Adoption Tax Benefits: An Overview

This report provides an overview of tax benefits for adoptive parents.
Date: March 13, 2018
Creator: Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax-Preferred College Savings Plan: An Introduction to Coverdells (open access)

Tax-Preferred College Savings Plan: An Introduction to Coverdells

This report describes the mechanics of Coverdell college savings plans and examines the specific tax advantages of these plans. Specifically, this report reviews the major parameters of Coverdells and then examines the income and gift tax treatment of Coverdells, using a stylized example to illustrate key concepts. The report also examines the tax treatment of rollovers and the interaction of Coverdells with other education tax benefits. Finally, the report looks at how Coverdells affect a student's eligibility for federal need-based student aid.
Date: March 13, 2018
Creator: Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eyeglasses (open access)

Eyeglasses

Patent for "an improvement in eyeglasses; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts" (lines 7-9), illustration and instructions included.
Date: March 13, 1900
Creator: Critzer, A. B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution (open access)

Federal R&D Funding Under a Continuing Resolution

None
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Davey, Michael E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2007 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2007

None
Date: March 13, 2007
Creator: Davey, Michael E.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Schacht, Wendy H.; Smith, Pamela W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federalism Issues in Surface Transportation Policy: Past and Present (open access)

Federalism Issues in Surface Transportation Policy: Past and Present

This report provides an historical perspective on contemporary federalism issues in surface transportation policy that are likely to be addressed by Congress during the 111th Congress, including possible devolution of programmatic responsibility to states and proposals to change state maintenance-of-effort requirements and state cost matching requirements.
Date: March 13, 2009
Creator: Dilger, Robert J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on phase I drilling on the King Tut Mesa experimental program (open access)

Report on phase I drilling on the King Tut Mesa experimental program

This report will summarize what has been done and present the interpretations made at this stage of the program.
Date: March 13, 1952
Creator: Dodd, Philip H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library