Railway shop battalion. (open access)

Railway shop battalion.

"This manual explains the organization and operation of railway shop battalion for employment on a standard military railway. Its purpose is to assist railway shop battalion officers in the training and operation of their units, and to guide command and staff officers charged with the employment of railway shop battalions."
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: United States. War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2503 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2503

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The authority of the County Commissioners’ Court to acquire land for the drainage of State highways.
Date: July 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2535 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2535

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the described deliveries be made by the truck without having it registered in Texas?
Date: July 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effect of body nose shape on the propulsive efficiency of a propeller (open access)

Effect of body nose shape on the propulsive efficiency of a propeller

Report presents the results of an investigation of the propulsive efficiency of three adjustable propellers of 10-foot diameter operated in front of four body nose shapes, varying from streamline nose that continued through the propeller plane in the form of a large spinner to a conventional open-nose radial-engine cowling. One propeller had airfoil sections close to the hub, the second had conventional round blade shanks, and the third differed from the second only in pitch distribution. The blade-angle settings ranged from 20 degrees to 55 degrees at the 0.75 radius.
Date: January 29, 1940
Creator: Stickle, George W.; Crigler, John L. & Naiman, Irven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1907 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1907

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Interpretation of article 917,Penal Code,relative to state game preserves.
Date: January 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1797 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1797

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Authority of Commissioners Court to refund road bonds to mature in lesser time than that of the underlying bonds.
Date: December 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1824 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1824

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is the license of a physician who has been convicted of murder and received a suspended sentence subject to revocation.
Date: February 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1688 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-1688

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The Railroad Commission of Texas is authorized to see that Article 6370 is compiled with, and may, in its discretion, require the erection of luminous signs.
Date: February 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2022 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2022

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: (1) Is it necessary under the laws of the state of Texas for a public cotton classer to first obtain a license to classify cotton from the Federal Government? (2) Is it necessary for a person who has received Federal license to file a bond with the Commissioner of Agriculture to be approved by him in the sum of $1000; and in this connection, is it necessary for him to pay to the Commissioner the $5.00 fee to be registered as a Public Cot-Classer?
Date: February 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2027 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2027

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Scholastics residing in Los Angeles Heights School District whose parents are employed on Fort Sam Houston Military Reservation.
Date: February 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2081 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2081

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the corporation in question operate “stores” or “bona fide distributing points” within the meaning of the Texas Chain Store Tax Act?
Date: May 29, 1940
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lathes (open access)

Lathes

A guide to the operation and maintenance of lathes for general shop work.
Date: November 29, 1940
Creator: United States. Army. Air Corps.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Calculated Effect of Various Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Factors on the Take-Off of a Large Flying Boat (open access)

The Calculated Effect of Various Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Factors on the Take-Off of a Large Flying Boat

Report presents the results of an investigation made to determine the influence of various factors on the take-off performance of a hypothetical large flying boat by means of take-off calculations. The factors varied in the calculations were size of hull (load coefficient), wing setting, trim, deflection of flap, wing loading, aspect ratio, and parasite drag. The take-off times and distances were calculated to the stalling speeds and the performance above these speeds was separately studied to determine piloting technique for optimum take-off.
Date: April 29, 1940
Creator: Olson, R. E. & Allison, J. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary investigation of the flying qualities of airplanes (open access)

Preliminary investigation of the flying qualities of airplanes

"The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is undertaking an investigation of the flying qualities of airplanes. The work consists in the determination of the significant qualities susceptible of measurement, the development of the instruments required to make the measurements, and the accumulation of data on the flying qualities of existing airplanes, which data are to serve as a basis for quantitative specifications for the flying qualities of future designs" (p. 449).
Date: March 29, 1940
Creator: Soulé, H. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Business Review, Volume 14, Issue 7, August 1940 (open access)

Texas Business Review, Volume 14, Issue 7, August 1940

Newsletter of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research outlining statistics and research related to business in Texas.
Date: August 29, 1940
Creator: University of Texas. Bureau of Business Research.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History