Operational limitations in flying noise- abatement approaches

Operational limitations in flying noise abatement approache

Computer program to determine pressure distributions and forces on blunt bodies of revolution

Program was written to include integration of surface pressure in order to obtain axial-force, normal-force, and pitching-moment coefficients. Program was written in CDC FORTRAN for the CDC-6600 computer system

LABOR LAW - NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT - POWER OF STATE COURT TO LEVY ON EMPLOYER\u27S OBLIGATION UNDER BACK PAY ORDER - POWER OF FEDERAL COURT TO ENJOIN STATE PROCEEDINGS

A decree of the federal circuit court had been issued enforcing an order of the National Labor Relations Board requiring respondent company to pay back wages to certain employees who had been discharged in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. While the sums payable under the award were still unliquidated, creditors and estranged wives of the employees brought suits in state courts on claims against the employees; and writs of attachment, process of garnishment and injunctive orders were issued by the state courts against respondent requiring it to pay portions of the awards to the creditors rather than the employees. The National Labor Relations Board petitioned the circuit court to enjoin the creditors from maintaining these state proceedings. Held, one judge dissenting, the injunction should issue. Third persons cannot, by resort to judicial process, be permitted to command the payment of the awards to others than those whom the decree had designated as the appropriate recipients. Section 265 of the Judicial Code is not an obstacle to granting the injunction; the authority to enjoin proceedings inimical to the free exercise of the court\u27s exclusive jurisdiction is implicit in the terms and the policy of the National Labor Relations Act. National Labor Relations Board v. Sunshine Mining Co., (C. C. A. 9th, 1942) 125 F. (2d) 757

CORPORATIONS - VOTING TRUSTS - POWER OF VOTING TRUSTEE TO ELECT DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS FOR PERIOD EXTENDING BEYOND TERMINATION OF TRUST

Defendants held all the stock of a corporation as voting trustees under a voting trust which provided that it should terminate November 18, 1941, and that the trustees should deliver the stock to the holders of the participation certificates within thirty days thereafter. The agreement further provided that the trustees might elect themselves directors and officers of the corporation. At the time of the execution of the agreement, the by-laws of the corporation provided for annual shareholders\u27 meetings in March. In 1939, defendant trustees, who had elected themselves directors and officers of the corporation, amended the by-laws to require the annual meetings to be held in October of each year beginning with 1940. Plaintiff, holder of fourteen per cent of the participation certificates, obtained an order restraining defendants from voting for, or electing, themselves . . . or other persons, as directors or officers of the defendant corporation ... for any term . . . terminating beyond or later than November 18, 1941. On appeal from this order, held, affirmed. Trustees may not extend their control of property held in trust beyond the specified period of the trust. Friedberg v. Schultz, 312 Ill. App. 171, 38 N. E. (2d) 182 (1941)

Intra-industry trade in Latin America and the Caribbean

An increasingly important component of total world trade is intra-industry trade (IIT). The large volume of literature on IIT is reflective of this importance. However, this extensive literature has focused almost completely on explaining the causes of IIT. This focus has left a puzzling gap in the literature. Specifically, it is almost impossible to determine the level of IIT for a particular country or region. Further, there is almost no information on the level of IIT at the industry level either globally or for a region or country. In this paper we provide estimates of IIT for the world and for the countries of the Western Hemisphere. Further, we provide estimates of IIT for ten different SITC product categories on the same basis. The findings of the paper indicate that in most industries, IIT in Latin America is substantially lower overall than the world average. There are, however, substantial variations observed both by country and by industry. Because the results are the first available for the region as a whole, they should allow researchers to get a better picture of the extent of IIT in Latin America and the Caribbean by country and by industry.Intra-industry trade; Latin America

Versatile Apparatus for Measuring Kinetics of Gaseous Reactions by a Relative Method

It is important that accurate, reproducible values for the rates of chemical reactions occurring in the atmosphere be obtained. The value of accurate kinetics measurements is to improve the accuracy of mathematical models used to forecast the state of the atmosphere. We describe a versatile, robust apparatus for obtaining atmospheric reaction rate values and their temperature dependencies by a relative method. This relative method has the advantage over absolute methods in that errors due to impurities and adsorption on walls of the reaction apparatus are minimized. In addition, relative values serve as an important verification for absolute values. The apparatus serves to mix sample and reference gases, used in the studies, with helium, water vapor and oxygen and deliver them to a quartz reaction cell whose temperature can be controlled between of -50 C and +350 C. Reaction is carried out by use of a low pressure mercury vapor lamp radiating the sample for different periods of time. The mercury lamp produces hydroxyl radicals in the presence of the water vapor in the reaction mixture. The hydroxyl radicals abstract hydrogen atoms from the sample molecules. Oxygen is needed to mimic reaction conditions in the atmosphere which is rich in oxygen. Measurement of the concentrations of unreacted and reacted mixtures are obtained by injecting these samples into a gas chromatograph having a mass spectrometer detector, GC/MS. Analysis of the rates of reaction of cyclopropane and difluoromethoxydifluoromethane, CHF2OCHF2, (HFOC-134) with hydroxyl radicals yields the following results: For cyclopropane, a rate of 7.85x10-14:s-1 at 298.15 Kand an activation energy, E/R, of 1323 was obtained. For HFOC-134, a rate of 2.23x10-15 s-1 at 298.15 Kand an activation energy, E/R, of 1895 was obtained