Monthly report documenting orders, opinions, and other legal statements issued by the Office of the Attorney General in Texas.

Monthly magazine discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.

Radial flattening of activity in the cores of spherical and cylindrical piles is discussed in connection with pile control and power improvement. Partial flattening as a result of k loss from temperature rise is also considered.

Technical report: The apparatus for the low pressure combustion method of determining carbon in iron and steel has be redesigned to increase the speed of manipulation. It has been tested by running several thousand determinations and found to yield results in good agreement with Wooten's form of the apparatus. A detailed description of the equipment and its manipulation is given together with an account of experimental studies on the method. Results are also shown for the carbon content of copper.

Technical report listing the errata for pages 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 for report CC-918.

Newsletter of the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research outlining statistics and research related to business in Texas.

Abstract: "An accurate calculation is given for the quantity which corresponds to the diffusion length in the theory of the pile. The procedure is to establish a relationship between the diffusion length and the change in thermal utilization from a pile with infinite sides to one with sides of a finite length. The calculation of this change in the thermal utilization is then carried through. Approximation to the answer and numerically exact calculations are given in the report. The results show that for radif very near the optimum values the exact diffusion length is slightly larger than the one obtained from the usual formula...However, over most of the range of radii the exact diffusion length is smaller than the approximate one."

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From introduction: The general distribution of known deposits of vanadium-bearing sandstone, which also contain some uranium and radium, is shown in figure 1 1/ and Exhibit A, plate 53. 2/ During 1939-41 the Geological Survey made detailed geological studies of these deposits in the Uravan district, Montrose County, Colorado, as well as preliminary examinations in other parts of the Colorado Plateau vanadium region. In 1942 detailed geological studies were made o the deposits in the Egnar-Slick Rock district, San Miguel Co., Colo.; 3/ the Carrizo Moungains district, Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona and New Mexico; 4/ the Placerville district, San Miguel County, Colo. 5/ and the Monticello district, San Juan Co., Utah. 6/ Since May 3, 1943, the Gelogical Survey has guided the Bureau of Mines program of prospecting these deposits in parts of Colorado and Utah.

From Summary: "The analysis of results of wind-tunnel stability and control tests of powered airplane models in terms of the flying qualities of full-scale airplanes is advocated. In order to indicate the topics upon which comments are considered desirable in the report of a wind-tunnel stability and control investigation and to demonstrate the nature of the suggested analysis, the present NACA flying-qualities requirements are discussed in relation to wind-tunnel tests. General procedures for the estimation of flying qualities from wind-tunnel tests are outlined."

Report presenting performance tests of thermal ice-prevention equipment designed and installed in the XB-24F airplane in icing and non-icing conditions. The recorded temperature and air-flow data, and the calculated quantities of heat flow throughout the system are presented in tabular form.

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;Under what circumstances may the owner of property make partial payments on a tax judgement that is final.

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on its annual safety contest between mine workers. Different types of mines enrolled in the competition and the winners and honorable mentions for 1942 are presented. This report includes tables.

Report presenting an investigation in the 19-foot pressure tunnel of two-tapered wings with NACA 230-series airfoil sections, straight leading edges, and constant-chord center sections. Lift, drag, and pitching-moment coefficients were determined for the plain wing and for each flap arrangement for a range of Reynolds numbers. The results indicated that the wing with the square center section has greater maximum lift coefficients and increments of maximum lift due to flap deflections than the wing with the rectangular center section.

Report presenting the results of an investigation made in the two-dimensional low-turbulence pressure tunnel of surface irregularities on a low-drag airfoil section. The primary objective was to determine the effects of riveted and piano-hinge-type skin joints and of an aileron slot of the drag characteristics. Any type of surface irregularities at the front spar were found to cause substantial increase in drag.

"Cut-outs in wings or fuselages produce stress concentrations that present a serious problem to the stress analyst. As a partial solution of the general problem, this paper presents formulas for calculating the stress distribution around rectangular cut-outs in axially loaded panels. The formulas are derived by means of the substitute-stringer method of shear-lag analysis" (p. 1).

It was realized as early as 1909 that a propeller in yaw develops a side force like that of a fin. In 1917, R. G. Harris expressed this force in terms of the torque coefficient for the unyawed propeller. Of several attempts to express the side force directly in terms of the shape of the blades, however, none has been completely satisfactory. An analysis that incorporates induction effects not adequately covered in previous work and that gives good agreement with experiment over a wide range of operating conditions is presented. The present analysis shows that the fin analogy may be extended to the form of the side-force expression and that the effective fin area may be taken as the projected side area of the propeller.

"An investigation was made to determine a method of measuring fuel-air ratio that could be used for test purposes in flight and for checking conventional equipment in the laboratory. Two single-cylinder test engines equipped with typical commercial engine cylinders were used. The fuel-air ratio of the mixture delivered to the engines was determined by direct measurement of the quantity of air and of fuel supplied and also by analysis of the oxidized exhaust gas and of the normal exhaust gas" (p. 73).

Report presenting an investigation of the effect of changes in the length-beam ratio of flying-boat hulls on resistance and spray. A family of three models of hulls of different length-beam ratios was used and, in order to maintain comparable hull sizes, the plan-form areas of the hulls were made approximately equal by keeping equal products of length and beam. Results regarding resistance, spray, and take-off performance are provided.

Report presenting tests of curved panels of four different thicknesses and with radius-thickness ratios varying from about 150 to infinity. Results are also included from some previous testing.

Report presenting a study devoted to the analysis of the effect of design and operating altitude on the performance of bombers. The primary emphasis is on range performance and charts are presented with range as a function of wing loading, power loading, and design altitude. Results regarding the range at maximum L/D, range at constant power, and performance charts are provided.

Report presenting an investigation of the effect of direction of propeller rotation on the dynamic lateral stability characteristics of a twin-engine airplane model equipped with single vertical tails of three different sizes. The effects of flap deflection and amount of power were also studied. The most satisfactory lateral-stability characteristics of the model in flight were encountered for the model with large vertical-tail areas.

Report presenting a study of several ducts installed in the wings of a model of a conventional single-engine pursuit airplane in the full-scale tunnel to determine the influence of inlet design and cooling-air flow on the pressure losses within the duct and on the aerodynamic characteristics of the airplane. Large differences in the total pressure at the radiator occurred as a result of variations in the inlet-velocity ratio, the lift coefficient, the shape and position of the inlet, the slope of the diffuser axis, and propeller operation.

Report presenting an estimate of the flying qualities of a twin-engine patrol airplane from wind-tunnel test results in comparison with flight observations as a possible guide in determining changes which would be necessary to improve these qualities. Results regarding the longitudinal and lateral stability and control of this airplane are provided.