United States Earthquakes, 1958 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1958

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1958. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Manganese Areas, Hammond Plantation and Hodgdon Townships, Southern District, Aroostook County, Maine (open access)

Investigation of Manganese Areas, Hammond Plantation and Hodgdon Townships, Southern District, Aroostook County, Maine

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on manganese deposits of Aroostook County, Maine. Descriptions of the deposits, and the results of the study are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: April 1958
Creator: Eilertsen, Nils A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laboratory and Full-Scale Sulfur Elimination Tests on Coal from Pratt Bed, Alabama (open access)

Laboratory and Full-Scale Sulfur Elimination Tests on Coal from Pratt Bed, Alabama

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the Pratt coal bed in Alabama. The report details "washability studies of coal from beds in Alabama and other southern states in which commercially important deposits occur" (p. 1). This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: May 1958
Creator: Perry, R. E.; Gandrud, B. W.; Riley, H. L.; Gayle, J. B. & Eddy, W. H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Practical Evaluation of Electrical-Resistivity Surveys as a Guide to Zinc-Lead Exploratory Drilling, Badger-Peacock Camp and Vicinity, Cherokee County, Kansas (open access)

Practical Evaluation of Electrical-Resistivity Surveys as a Guide to Zinc-Lead Exploratory Drilling, Badger-Peacock Camp and Vicinity, Cherokee County, Kansas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on geophysical surveys for exploratory drilling. Electrical-resistivity techniques are discussed. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1958
Creator: Brichta, Louis Chanborn & Ryan, J. Patrick
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of the Beluga River Coalfield, Alaska (open access)

Reconnaissance of the Beluga River Coalfield, Alaska

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies conducted on the Beluga River coalfield "to determine, if possible, which areas were most favorable for developing large reserves of coal suitable for open-pit mining" (p. 1). Description of the coal deposits, and results of the study are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and maps.
Date: 1958
Creator: Maloney, Raymond P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Ogotoruk Creek Area, Northwestern Alaska (open access)

Geology of the Ogotoruk Creek Area, Northwestern Alaska

From introduction: A project to use the immense energy concentrated in a nuclear device to construct an experimental deep-water harbor has been proposed by the Atomic Energy Commission and is referred to as Project Chariot; it is one phase of AEC Project Plowshare...During the field conference, Mr. Gerald Johnson of U. C. R. L. requested that the U. S. Geological Survey submit a report on the summer's investigation around the first of November 1958. This preliminary report is in response to Mr. Johnson's request.
Date: October 1958
Creator: Kachadoorian, Reuben; Campbell, Russell H.; Sainsbury, C. L. & Scholl, David W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preliminary Geologic Map of the Mount Peale 4 Southwest Quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah

This is a preliminary geologic map of the Mt. Peale 4 SW Quadrangle, scale 1:24,000, in San Juan County, Utah.
Date: 1958?
Creator: Weir, Gordon W. & Dodson, Chester L.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor (open access)

Instrumentation and Some Related Problems for Neutron Flux Measurement of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Kiwi-A Reactor

Abstract: "A description of the instrumentation for neutron flux measurement from Kiwi-A at NTS is given as some discussion of start-up considerations, detector design, system response adjustments, and power calibration of the reactor at some low level of power."
Date: September 1958
Creator: Barton, David M.; Helmick, Herbert H. & Jarvis, G. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
On the Possibility of Extracting Energy from Gravitational Systems by Navigating Space Vehicles (open access)

On the Possibility of Extracting Energy from Gravitational Systems by Navigating Space Vehicles

This report describes a number of problems, generally involving the possibility of using reserved kinetic energy in such a way as to acquire, by suitable near collisions with one or the other of the celestial bodies discussed, much more kinetic energy that it possesses -- more by an order of magnitude than the available reserve energy would allow it to acquire by itself.
Date: 1958
Creator: Ulam, Stanislaw M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.02 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.02 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site

From introduction: The papers comprising the various parts of this report contain the preliminary results of the U. S. Geological Survey investigations in the U12b.02 tunnel at the Nevada Test Site.
Date: October 1958
Creator: Diment, William H.; Wilmarth, V. R.; McKeown, F. A.; Dickey, D. D.; Wilcox, R. E.; Botinelly, Theodore et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-167 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-167

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the "reserve" mentioned in Section 7 of Article 3.44, Texas Insurance Code, includes therein the deficiency reserve described in Section 2 of Article 3.28, Texas Insurance Code.
Date: March 28, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-191A (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-191A

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a foreign corporation that is a limited partner must take out a permit to do business in the State if the limited partnership engages in certain limited activities in the State; and related question.
Date: February 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-387 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-387

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Commissioners' Court to order or refuse to order a local option election.
Date: March 6, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extrusion Cladding of Uranium Fuel Plates (open access)

Extrusion Cladding of Uranium Fuel Plates

The following report describes two methods of extrusion cladding of uranium fuel plates that were investigated and evaluated.
Date: August 22, 1958
Creator: Fiorentino, Robert J.; Drennen, David C.; Slunder, Charles J. & Hall, A. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GCRE Critical-Assembly Studies (open access)

GCRE Critical-Assembly Studies

This report follows critical-assembly studies made to provide engineering and physics data to aid in developing the Gas Cooled Reactor Experiments.
Date: September 10, 1958
Creator: Dingee, David A.; Ballowe, William C.; Klingensmith, Raymond W.; Egen, R. A.; Jankowski, Francis J. & Chastain, Joel W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-42 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-42

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Classification of real estate held by a State bank for the purpose of a future home.
Date: January 23, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-284A (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-284A

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Amount of a vendor's lien note that may be carried by an insurance company against a building which was previously the home office of the insurance company.
Date: February 18, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-293A (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-293A

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Disposition to be made of insurance company investments which do not meet qualifications required by the appropriate investment statutes.
Date: February 18, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-334 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-334

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Texas Technological College may present commercial television programs should the Federal Communications Commission grant a television channel for use by the College.
Date: January 3, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-336 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-336

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Texas Department of Corrections to pay the Huntsville and Madisonville Fire Departments for services performed in extinguishing a fire on prison property.
Date: January 3, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-338 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-338

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Motor Vehicle Sales Tax levied by Article 7047K, V.C.S., applies where an automobile dealer secures a motor vehicle from a manufacturer to be used by a salesman for demonstration purposes when no consideration is involved?
Date: January 15, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-342 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-342

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the word "site" used in the first sentence of Section 3 of Senate Bill No. 478, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular Session, 1957, Chapter 389, page 1164, mean land, buildings and such equipment as is permanently installed as a part of the present facilities, and related questions.
Date: January 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-343 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-343

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Distribution of the Estate of Jesse H. Jones for the Inheritance Tax purpose.
Date: January 22, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-344 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-344

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect of Section 17, Article I and Section 7a, Article VIII of the Constitution of Texas and your recent opinions numbered WW-45; WW-78; WW-125 and WW-236 on whether or not State and Federal Highway Funds can be legally used by the State Highway Department for the payment of the cost of removal, relocation or adjustment of the telephone facilities belonging to Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, the gas lines belong to South Union Gas Company and the water, electrical and sanitary sewer facilities belonging to the City of Austin which are located within the public right of way along East Avenue and the streets which intersect East Avenue in Austin, Texas.
Date: January 21, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History