Precise Measurement of Heat of Combustion with a Bomb Calorimeter (open access)

Precise Measurement of Heat of Combustion with a Bomb Calorimeter

From Introduction: "This Monograph describes methods and apparatus used at the National Bureau of Standards in connection with several series of investigations of heats of combustion of aircraft fuels [4, 5, 6, 7]."
Date: February 26, 1960
Creator: Jessup, R. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Design and Hazards Report-Boiling Reactor Experiment V (BORAX V) (open access)

Preliminary Design and Hazards Report-Boiling Reactor Experiment V (BORAX V)

From introduction: "The report is preliminary. At the time of writing, the status of the BORAX V project is that design of the reactor buildings and plant, done in collaboration with the architect-engineer with the architect-engineer has been completed and construction has just started; however, the mechanical design of the fuel and cores is still tentative."
Date: February 1960
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transistor Scintillation Spectrometer (open access)

Transistor Scintillation Spectrometer

Report describing "an AC-operated portable scintillation spectrometer consisting of a preamplifier, a linear pulse amplifier, a single-channel pulse-height analyzer, a linear count-rate meter, a scaler, and a high-voltage power supply. The operation and performance of the circuits are discussed" (p. 3).
Date: February 1960
Creator: Strauss, Michael G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-793 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-793

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: What original records in the office of the District Clerk may be destroyed under the provisions of Article 6574b, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: February 2, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-795 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-795

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: Can the Comptroller and Treasurer clear funds from the Trust Account 923, Insurance Companies Unclaimed Dividends Account, funds with the State Treasurer, to the General Revenue Fund to pay the appropriation to the State Auditor for the cost of audit of the Liquidation Division of the Board of Insurance.
Date: February 1, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-796 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-796

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: Questions concerning the legal determination of restoration of recipients of public assistance, who have been judicially declared to be of unsound mind or mentally incompetent, under provisions of the Texas Mental Health Code.
Date: February 24, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-797 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-797

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 "Hotel Occupancy Tax" levied by House Bill 11, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Third Called Session, 1959, Chapter 1, constitutes a reimbursable expense under the provisions of Section 36 of Article V of House Bill 4, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Third Called Session, 1959, Chapter 23, page 442 (General Appropriation Act).
Date: February 12, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-798 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-798

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 County Court of Sabine County has the jurisdiction to sit as the Juvenile Court of Sabine County in view of the provisions of Senate Bill 19, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Second Called Session, 1959, Chapter 6, page 90, Article 1970-310, V.C.S.
Date: February 12, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-799 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-799

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: Minimum recording fee to be charged by County Clerks for recording any paper or record under the provisions of Article 3930, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: February 15, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-800 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-800

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: Liability of Fort Worth Independent School District for certain excise taxes.
Date: February 16, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-801 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-801

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: What sales or use tax, if any, is levied where a motor vehicle manufacturer leases vehicles which it has produced to its own employees within this State, without options to purchase?
Date: February 17, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-802 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-802

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 State ad valorem tax for general revenue should be levied in Calhoun County under authority of Art. 8, Sec. 1-a, Texas Constitution, after certain legal obligations have been paid.
Date: February 16, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-803 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-803

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 Secretary of State to accept and file proposed Articles of Incorporation containing the clause that the purpose of the corporation is "to support and make contributions to any religious, charitable, scientific or educational undertaking or organization."
Date: February 17, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-804 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-804

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: Constitutionality of the provisions of Section 4 and Section 6 of Division of Defense and Disaster Relief Model City Ordinance for Municipal Civil Defense.
Date: February 17, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-805 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-805

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 conveyances from the Veterans Land Board may be filed for record without acknowledgement.
Date: February 18, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-806 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-806

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 Secretary of State and the Comptroller of Public Accounts concerning the administrative procedure for the forfeiture of the right to do business of a corporation which is delinquent in the filing of its franchise tax report and in the payment of franchise taxes.
Date: February 17, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-807 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-807

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 Veterans' Land Bonds are exempt from inheritance taxes.
Date: February 18, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-808 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-808

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: Where a corporation overpaid a tax between 9-1-59 and 10-16-59, may it now be issued a Tax Credit as authorized by Title 122A, Art. 1.11, by the State Comptroller, who assumed administration of this function on 10-16-59.
Date: February 17, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-809 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-809

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 "Capehart Notes" are eligible for pledge to the Treasurer as security for deposit of State funds in a State Depository.
Date: February 29, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Description of Facilities and Mechanical Components: Medical Research Reactor (MRR) (open access)

Description of Facilities and Mechanical Components: Medical Research Reactor (MRR)

Report issued by the Brookhaven National Laboratory discussing the Medical Research Reactor at the Medical Research Center. Design, tests, and operations of the reactor are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 1960
Creator: Godel, Jules B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
ETR Nuclear Instrumentation : Final Report (open access)

ETR Nuclear Instrumentation : Final Report

Report regarding the primary nuclear instrumentation at the Engineering Test Reactor (ETR) and early difficulties.
Date: February 3, 1960
Creator: Hanson, D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program Semiannual Progress Report: July 1 - December 31, 1959 (open access)

Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program Semiannual Progress Report: July 1 - December 31, 1959

Report documenting the progress of the Army Gas-Cooled Reactor Systems Program to develop a mobile nuclear power plant for military field operation.
Date: February 15, 1960
Creator: Aerojet-General Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homogeneous Reactor Project Progress Report: May-October 1959 (open access)

Homogeneous Reactor Project Progress Report: May-October 1959

Report issued by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory discussing quarterly progress made by the Homogeneous Reactor Program. Descriptions of progress and studies conducted are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: February 10, 1960
Creator: Briggs, R. B.; Beall, S. E.; Lyon, R. N.; Bohlmann, E. G.; Ferguson, D. E.; McDuffie, H. F. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Mass Studies of Plutonium Solutions (open access)

Critical Mass Studies of Plutonium Solutions

Chain reacting conditions for plutonium nitrate in water solution have been examined experimentally for a variety of sizes of spheres and cylinders.
Date: February 15, 1960
Creator: Kruesi, F. E.; Erkman, J. O. & Lanning, D. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library