Report presenting a method for analyzing each of the elements, boron, carbon, and hydrogen from the quantitative analysis of a single sample of an organoboron compound. The method is helpful for the analysis of volatile hydrocarbons and polynuclear aromatic compounds.

A report discussing an examination of the Dismal Swamp property for niobium, tantalum, and uranium.

Report presenting an investigation in the free-flight tunnel to determine the static stability characteristics of several fuselages with a relatively flat cross section and a high fineness ratio. Results regarding the fuselages alone and fuselages with various vertical and horizontal surfaces are provided.

From Summary: "An experimental wind-tunnel investigation was conducted at Mach 1.9 to determine the pressures acting on the base of a multijet missile using unheated air and carbon dioxide as jet fluids. The variation of base pressure with jet static-pressure ratio was compared with results estimated for an axisymmetric single-jet model and some correlation was observed."

Abstract: "Aluminum electroplating was studied in a search for new methods of cladding uranium fuel elements. Uranium electroclad with 12 mils of aluminum over a 0.5-mil (or nickel plus copper) electroplate resisted corrosion for more than 100 hr in boiling water. This quality of protection was effected by hot pressing the electroclad uranium with 5.1 tons per sq in. for 5 min at 950 F. The electroclad uranium with hot-pressed samples paralleled those of later experiments with hot-pressed wrought aluminum claddings on uranium. In both cases, the uranium was electroplated with thin (0.5 mil) layers of metals to prevent aluminum-uranium diffusion, to aid bonding, and to assist in corrosion protection. This aluminum electroplating study helped to define the importance of the intermediate coating between the aluminum and the uranium, the effect of good bonds between the various layers, and the effects of hot pressing in protecting uranium with an aluminum cladding."

A process for hot-press canning of unplated thorium cores in aluminum jackets was developed using wafers of thorium and aluminum for diffusion and bonding studies.

Memorandum presenting an investigation of the effective thermal conductivities of powders, which included uranium oxide UO(sub 2) powder with a density of 59.5 percent of the density of the solid uranium oxide at a range of temperatures. Helium, argon, and nitrogen gases and mixtures of helium-argon and xenon-krypton gases were introduced into the powder void, and the experimental effective thermal conductivities of the gas-powder mixtures were determined.

Abstract: "The deuterium plasma which is ejected by a 6000-ampere pulsed current through a rail-type spark source has a yield in the forward direction which is a factor of 5 to 10 greater than that in the perpendicular direction. This effect is believed to be due to the magnetic propulsion of the plasma."

Abstract: "A possible mechanism for the generation of magneto-hydrodynamic whirl rings near the center of the sun is described. The organic relation of the reflection of these whirl rings at the surface of the sun to the cooling of sunspots, orientation, and polarity sequence of sunspots, prominences, flares, and faculae is delineated."

Abstract: "Two parallel wires close together with an arc between them form a hairpin-type of current configuration which should magnetically propel the plasma of the arc. By the time-of-flight measurements with probes it has been demonstrated that directed translational energies of 290 ev can be imparted to deuterons in a plasma produced by a high-current pulsed arc at the tips of two titanium wires loaded with deuterium. It is believed that three deuterons are actually magnetically propelled."

Abstract: This proposal describes a parallel-plate capacitor and the discharge tube with which it is hoped that implosion energies of 1000 eV can be given to deuterons by the pinch effect. The discharge tube is to be arranged so that no external series switch is required.

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1954, activities, organizational leadership, programming, membership, training, and other information about scouting programs.

Report presenting turbulent-heat-transfer measurements obtained through the use of an axially symmetric annual nozzle consisting of an inner shaped center body and an outer cylindrical sleeve at Mach number 2.06. Results regarding the variation of wall temperature with longitudinal distance, variation of local Nusselt number with local Reynolds number, and variation of local temperature-recovery factor with local Reynolds number are provided.

Report presenting some accompanying tables and bibliography for experimental aerodynamic studies in the field of wing controls during the period between January 1946 and February 1955. The tables are grouped according to the following major classifications: trailing-edge flap controls, leading-edge flap controls, and spoiler controls.

Report presenting testing of free-falling recoverable-model tests at transonic speeds on a model with an aspect-ratio-4 triangular wing and a 45 degree sweptback tail in the extended wing-chord plane. Results regarding the lift, drag, stability, tail effectiveness, and buffet boundary are provided.

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the work conducted by the lab during the fiscal year of 1954. As stated in the introduction, "the progress and trends of the research program are presented along with a description of the operational, service, and administrative activities of the Laboratory" (p. v).

This study was initiated to determine the minimum safety requirements for safe anchorage of electric pole lines. The objectives were to investigate the suitability of manufactured concrete pole line anchors for use at the Hanford Atomic Products Operation, to design a concrete anchor slug of optimum shape and size for manufacture, to determine by field tests the resistance pullout of the concrete anchor when buried at various depths under the most favorable condition, and to develop a safe design load for the anchors at various depths of burial and angle of pull based on test results.

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Report presenting an evaluation of convective heat-transfer coefficients from skin temperatures measured along the body of a research model designated NACA RM-10. Heat-transfer data is presented for a range of Mach and Reynolds numbers based on the axial distance from the nose to the point at which the temperature measurements were made. Results regarding the recovery factor, heat transfer, correlation with different aircraft models, and Reynolds analogy are provided.

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From Introduction: "Past analyses of data from the NACA V-G and the NACA VGH recorders (see, for example, refs. 1 and 2) have yielded information on the magnitude and frequency of occurrence of gust and maneuver accelerations, and the associated airspeeds and altitudes for several types of airplanes flown by different operators on various routes."

Report presenting an interferometric study of the flow over a two-dimensional isentropic compression surface at a Mach number of 3.0. The flow field was essentially that of a strong-branch-shock configuration resulting from a surface flow turning that corresponded to an empirical limiting value of free-stream normal-shock pressure rise.