Report of the Science Advisory Board, Volumes 1-2Science Advisory Board, 1934 |
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Page 20 - may be designated, and the academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any sen-ices to the Government of the United States.
Page 60 - ... construction, when necessary, of standards, their multiples and subdivisions; the testing and calibration of standard measuring apparatus; the solution of problems which arise in connection with standards; the determination of physical constants and the properties of materials, when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere.
Page 466 - The purposes of this title are (1) to encourage and promote or require action on the part of the carriers and of subsidiaries subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, which will (a) avoid unnecessary duplication of services and facilities...
Page 63 - Council for Professional Development, the recognized accrediting body of the engineering profession, composed of representatives of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the...
Page 46 - Storm warnings are displayed at more than 300 points along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts and the shores of the Great Lakes, including every port and harbor of any considerable importance; and so nearly perfect has this service become that scarcely a storm of marked danger to maritime interests has occurred for years for which ample warnings have not been issued from 12 to 24 hours in advance. The reports from the West Indies are especially valuable in this connection...
Page 259 - State, in paying the annual share of the United States as an adhering member of the International Council of Scientific Unions and associated unions...
Page 20 - In the evolution of our national life we have now reached a point where science, and the research which has discovered and released its powers, cannot be left to accidental application. Its relations to our social welfare are constantly growing more intricate and intimate.
Page 36 - February 1, 1905, the forest reserves were transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and have since been known as the National Forests, administered by the Forest Service.
Page 78 - WHEREAS, Scientific developments have not only conferred general benefits, but in particular have been largely effective in leading to recovery from previous depressions — as the railroad industry following the depression of 1870, the electric industry following that of 1896, and the automobile industry...
Page 284 - ... repair all damaged monuments and buoys; to relocate and rebuild monuments which have been destroyed ; to keep the boundary vistas open ; to move boundary monuments to new sites and establish such additional monuments and buoys as they shall deem...