From introduction: "This report is an attempt to examine, semiquantitavely, the way the competition between neutron emission and fission varies for heavy nuclei as a function of nuclear type and excitation energy. Many of the ideas herein are the results of discussions with R. H. Goeckermann and W. Heckrotte of the University of California Radiation Laboratory."

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Proper appropriation year against which refund of Judiciary Retirement System contributions should be charged.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority to refund monies under Article 4388, V.C.S., when the monies were paid to the State pursuant to the protest statute. Article 7057b, V.C.S., and the protesting taxpayer failed to observe the requirements of the protest statute.

Abstract: Preliminary reconnaissance for uranium in the Green River Basin and the Rock Springs Uplift revealed anomalous radioactivity northwest of Oregon Buttes in the Tipton tongue of the Green River formation and in the Cathedral Bluffs tongue of the Wasatch formation, and in the Tipton tongue in Red Creek Basin.

This technical report describes a plant-scale procedure for concentrating plutonium and americium in slag and crucible (metal reduction residues) and other recovery solutions by a calcium oxalate carrier precipitation Conclusions from exploratory laboratory tests on the variables affecting the efficiency are included.

The non-project literature concerning the chemistry of vanadium has been summarized through November, 1952. The report is presented in terms of izo- and heteropoly vanadates and cationic forms of pentavalent vanadium, complexes of di-, tri-, and pentavalent vanadium, and oxidation potentials of various vanadium systems. A bibliography of 93 references is included.

Annual report submitted by the Boy Scouts of America to Congress describing highlights from 1953, activities, programming, resources, organizational leadership, and other information about scouting programs.