Photographic film as a pocket radiation dosimeter (open access)

Photographic film as a pocket radiation dosimeter

The energy dependence of film blackening is discussed and shown graphically. The exposure range of films is discussed, and blackening is plotted vs exposure for DuPont No. 502, and for the less sensitive DuPont No. 351. A plan is then described for monitoring radiation exposure to workers by requiring the worker to carry an x-ray film of dental packet size in a badge designed for the purpose. (LEW)
Date: April 25, 1944
Creator: Pardue, L. A.; Goldstein, N. & Wollan, E. O.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6204 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6204

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Procedure of the Republican Party to have its candidates appear on the general election ballot and related questions.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5810 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5810

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Validity under Nepotism Statute (Art. 432, Penal Code) of Ch. 3, Sec. 2 of Rules and Regulations of A. & M. College.
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5814 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5814

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Sheriff of Brazoria County can legally pay his first assistant $2,000 per enum under Section 2 of Article 3902, Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes.
Date: January 25, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exposures exceeding tolerance (open access)

Exposures exceeding tolerance

This letter was written in 1944 and applies to the amount of radiation a person could be subjected to under emergency, wartime conditions. Mr. Stone recommends to Dr. Norwood that no man should be ordered to expose himself to more than a tolerance dose (0.1r in a 24 hr period) except in the case of an extreme emergency in which time is of the essence. And that before any man is asked to exceed tolerance that a radiation trained physician be called in for consultation. His recommendations to said physician are that: (a) a single exposure of 1r would cause no harm and could be repeated at long intervals, (b) an exposure of 5 to 10r would produce loss of appetite and nausea and would increase the chances of genetic change but would cause no clinically detectable changes after the incident, (C) an exposure of 25r would do the same as (b) but with greater probability -- he would be personally willing to take a 25r exposure to accomplish an extremely important job, (4) in general keep exposures well below tolerance, (5) due to the genetic effects, women of childbearing age and younger men should be subjected to none and …
Date: October 25, 1944
Creator: Stone, R. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eta Temperature Effect (open access)

Eta Temperature Effect

The temperature coefficient of eta has been measured with the thermal column of the Argonne pile using uranium foils of different isotopic ratios. The temperature change was effected by filtering neutrons through silver. The measured fractional change per degree centigrade is [formula].
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Bragdon, E. W.; Hughes, D. & Marshall, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Final Report on the Experiment : the Penetration of Graphite of Different Purities by Lead Bismuth Eutectic (open access)

A Final Report on the Experiment : the Penetration of Graphite of Different Purities by Lead Bismuth Eutectic

Bi-Pb eutectic and pure Bi penetration of graphites of various densities under 300 degrees C and pressures up to 20 psi was found be of the order of magnitude of 1.0 g/cm(2) and was uniform throughout the graphite. Bi was absorbed less than the eutectic but the oxidation rate of Bi would be prohibitive. There was heavy nitriding in N atmospheres with the Bi and the eutectic.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Stroud, William G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUGGESTIONS FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE PEBBLE PILE (open access)

SUGGESTIONS FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE PEBBLE PILE

None
Date: October 25, 1944
Creator: Daniels, F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight measurements of horizontal tail loads on a typical propeller-driven pursuit airplane during stalled pull-outs at high speed (open access)

Flight measurements of horizontal tail loads on a typical propeller-driven pursuit airplane during stalled pull-outs at high speed

Report presenting flight measurements of the pressures on the horizontal tail surfaces of a typical propeller-driven pursuit airplane during stalled pull-outs at high Mach number. Unit loads measured on the stabilizer at safe maneuvering limits were not only considerably in excess of the design unit loads, but also occurred in a direction opposite to the design loads. Revision of the tail-load design requirements and manner of specifying safe maneuverability limits to pilots appears necessary.
Date: April 25, 1944
Creator: Clousing, Lawrence A. & Turner, William N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intercooler cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop for minimum drag loss (open access)

Intercooler cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop for minimum drag loss

An analysis has been made of the drag losses in airplane flight of cross-flow plate and tubular intercoolers to determine the cooling-air weight flow and pressure drop that give a minimum drag loss for any given cooling effectiveness and, thus, a maximum power-plant net gain due to charge-air cooling. The drag losses considered in this analysis are those due to (1) the extra drag imposed on the airplane by the weight of the intercooler, its duct, and its supports and (2) the drag sustained by the cooling air in flowing through the intercooler and its duct. The investigation covers a range of conditions of altitude, airspeed, lift-drag ratio, supercharger-pressure ratio, and supercharger adiabatic efficiency. The optimum values of cooling air pressure drop and weight flow ratio are tabulated. Curves are presented to illustrate the results of the analysis.
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Reuter, J. George & Valerino, Michael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eastern Black Shale Reconnaissance Preliminary Report (open access)

Eastern Black Shale Reconnaissance Preliminary Report

The following report is the result of a reconnaissance of the black shales of the Eastern United States in the summer of 1944. The purpose of this reconnaissance was to determine the radioactivity of the shales, specifically for uranium and thorium.
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Clabaugh, S. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5996 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5996

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May mutual investment associations levy annual assessments in advance against the policies of their members, with provision that the amount of the annual assessment may be paid in periodic installments, and that at the death of the insured, the unpaid installments of the annual premium will be deducted from the face amount of the policy?
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5929 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5929

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Articles 4982, 4986, 4201 and 4216, V. A. C. S.
Date: March 25, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Temperature Rise in a Heat Producing Cylinder Under a Coating Defect (open access)

Temperature Rise in a Heat Producing Cylinder Under a Coating Defect

Abstract: "For defects between interior and coating, or between successive layers of coating, a simple, fairly accurate formula is established. The temperature rise at the edge of the defect is briefly discussed."
Date: January 25, 1944
Creator: Ginsburg, M.; Karush, W. & Young, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 276th week of the war, 158th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: 600-mile water jump, Pacific war in the air, Nazis stage offensive, Budapest Under Siege, Eighth Takes Strongpoint. Maps: Mindoro -- Pacific war in the air -- Red Army -- Western action. Inset maps: Philippine Islands -- Budapest. Back: Map of South Burma and Thailand
Date: December 25, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 263rd week of the war, 145th week of U.S. participation

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: France, Pacific, Italy, China-Burma, Eastern front. Maps: North Burma; France; Western Pacific; Warsaw. Insets: Palau Islands; Morotai. Back:"Mindanao, Philippine Islands." Two different oblique views of the island. The large image shows it as seen from the southwest.
Date: September 25, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Watermanship (open access)

Watermanship

"The purpose of this manual is three-fold: a. To give you those basic principles of watermanship that will enable you to meet with confidence any emergency that may arise. b. To teach you certain fundamental practices used during small landing-craft operations. c. To show you how to swim small lakes or rivers under combat conditions."
Date: April 25, 1944
Creator: United States. War Department.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermopiles for pile monitoring (open access)

Thermopiles for pile monitoring

None
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: West, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculations for Some Pile Shapes of Which the Boundaries are Partly Spherical (open access)

Calculations for Some Pile Shapes of Which the Boundaries are Partly Spherical

Some methods for calculating the k requirements of various shaped piles are indicated, with particular reference to the shape of the tank in the homogeneous plant.
Date: February 25, 1944
Creator: Young, G.; Murray, F. H. & Castle, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library