Box 4: Commerce: General (1948) -- Commerce: Weather Bureau (1963)
F 1: Commerce: General (1948-1949).
Exemption of animal and vegetable oils and related products from export controls; steel plate allotments; Drop Sonde patent infringement; inclusion of LP gas questions on census form; voluntary allocation program of Office of Industry Cooperation; folding toothbrush patent and possible use of item by the military; 1950 census; patent application.
F 2: Commerce: Organization of Department (1948-1950).
Organizational charts; Census Bureau forms and booklet; Coast and Geodetic Survey material.
F 3: Commerce: Census Bureau (1949).
Census searches; inclusion of a religion question in 1950 census; dispute of census unemployment estimates; National Unemployment Estimates (report) by United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America; District Census Supervisor appointment.
F 4: Commerce: Civil Aeronautics Administration/Board (1949-1953, 1955).
Copy of Public Law 81-311, concerning surplus airport property; claim filed with War Department re: construction of airport at Enid; exclusive right of airports to sell oil and gas on premises; Braniff passenger service to Enid; National Airport Plan for 1949; Continental Airlines service in Oklahoma and Texas; securing of surplus building; CAA funds for administration building in Enid; mineral rights at former Clinton Naval Air Station; use of surplus building from Clinton Naval Air Station by Burns Flat School; opposition of Ada and Ardmore Chambers of Commerce to extension of Central Airlines permit; dispute between Colonial Airlines and Canada about air routes; airline service to Ada; duties of Ponca City weather station; permit application for Skytrain Airways; consideration of Oklahoma City as site for CAA Staff School; Central Airlines permit application; souvenir carried on first Central Airlines flight; CAA international student training program; use of and mineral rights at Frederick Municipal Airport; possible relocation of CAA Development Center from Indianapolis; copy of Public Law 81-311, concerning surplus airport property; abandonment of Stroud emergency landing field by CAA; list of projects included in Federal-aid Airport Program; transportation problems of government employees near Washington, D.C.; possible discontinuance of Hobart communication station. Correspondents include: Stanley Draper; Byron Dacus.
F 5: Commerce: Census Bureau (1950).
Recording of census statistics for areas that include multiple cities; census searches; availability of funds for Fifth District census check; population figures by Oklahoma congressional district; U.S. population estimates; Oklahoma population figures by city and county.
F 6: Commerce: General (1950).
Manufacture and sale of Jeep tops; credentials from Department of Commerce for foreign travel; government procurement contracts; RFC loan.
F 7: Commerce: National Production Authority (1950).
Steel allotments; criticism of government departments; procurement of small airplane parts; Defense Production Act of 1950; controls on use of copper; limitations on YMCA construction; ore supply conservation; NPA priority system; theft of defense materials by military employees; price control laws.
F 8: Commerce: Census Bureau (1951).
Census searches; block statistics from 1950 census of housing; census of agriculture; religious census of Tulsa; copy of census search application; 1950 census advance reports containing Oklahoma population statistics.
F 9: Commerce: General (1951).
Assistant director appointment in Coast and Geodetic Survey; protest of grocery store construction in Enid; shipment of ice cream stabilizers to Great Britain; Business Information Service report: "Banking Institutions Owned and Operated by Negroes"; national wealth statistics; consumer price index; strategic metals; aluminum exports; Wisconsin Central Airlines certificate renewal application.
F 10: Commerce: National Production Authority (1951-1952).
Government financing for nitrogen plants; NPA allotments; new construction regulations; purchase and shipment of office furniture; obtaining of steel pipe; RFC loan; cellophane controls; construction of office buildings; allocation of materials for toy manufacturers; price of tin; rubber and steel conservation in automobile construction; cut in steel production; lack of steel for highway construction; critical defense housing areas; classification of Ardmore as critical defense housing area. Correspondents include the Bureau of Public Roads and the Oklahoma Department of Highways.
F 11: Commerce: Patent Office (1951).
Patent and trademark applications, disputes, and questions.
F 12: Commerce: Public Roads (1951-1952).
Jurisdiction for traffic offenses committed on highways running through Fort Sill Military Reservation; road user taxes.
F 13: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1951-1954).
Establishment of Lawton station; integration of information from Weather Bureau and information from Air Force for storm warnings; weather observation and reporting facilities in Ada; authorization to act as an official distributor of Weather Bureau information.
F 14: Commerce: General (1952).
Exportation of copper to Russia; suspension of export licenses for cotton linters; verification of employment; 1950 Census of Housing Advance Reports.
F 15: Commerce: Maritime Administration (1952-1954, 1959).
Request for a model of the steamship United States; approval of transfer boat; information on applying for appointment to United States Merchant Marine Academy; reduction of marine hospital budget; profit limitation clauses in government contracts.
F 16: Commerce: Patent Office (1952).
Patent and trademark applications and questions. Correspondents include: Raymond Gary.
F 17: Commerce: Standards, Bureau of (1952).
Survey of hearing aid industry re: the Bureau of Standards publication Selection of Hearing Aids (note: copy of booklet included).
F 18: Commerce: General (1953).
Exportation of scrap iron and steel; economic conditions in New Zealand; trade with Italy; importer's license; information on Bureau of Foreign Commerce.
F 19: Commerce: Patent Office (1953).
Patent applications; requests for information.
F 20: Commerce: Census Bureau (1954).
Census searches.
F 21: Commerce: General (1954).
Government aid to airports.
F 22: Commerce: Patent Office (1954).
Patent applications.
F 23: Commerce: Census Bureau (1955).
Census searches; Oklahoma population estimates and projections.
F 24: Commerce: General (1955).
Problems of missionaries with Brazilian customs; criticism of Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks by Walter Reuther, president of United Auto Workers (UAW); exportation of television sets to Italy; Merchant Marine advertisement; roads.
F 25: Commerce: Patent Office (1955).
Patent applications; requests for information; Patent Laws, January 1, 1955 (booklet); Rules of Practice of the United States Patent Office in Patent Cases, September 1955 (booklet).
F 26: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1955).
Extended forecasts for Oklahoma; request for weather station at Guymon.
F 27: Commerce: Census Bureau (1956).
Census searches; population of western Oklahoma; criticism of Census Bureau; copy of census search application form. Correspondents include: Stanley Draper.
F 28: Commerce: Civil Aeronautics Administration (1956).
Employment at Will Rogers Field; building program at Will Rogers Field; lists of projects included in Federal-aid Airport Program; project at Lake Texoma State Park Airport in Kingston, Oklahoma; Sequoyah State Park airstrip; Grandfield Municipal Airport; funds for Hatbox Field, Muskogee; activation of Ponca City control tower.
F 29: Commerce: General (1956).
Problems caused by inadequate parking facilities; information on patents; biographical material on Louis Rothschild, Undersecretary of Commerce for Transportation.
F 30: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1956).
Monthly precipitation reports for Oklahoma (including precipitation maps); average annual precipitation map of Oklahoma; map depicting average date of first freeze throughout Oklahoma.
F 31: Commerce: Census Bureau (1957).
Census searches.
F 32: Commerce: Civil Aeronautics Administration (1957).
Federal-aid Airport Program project list; employment; project at Stillwater Municipal Airport; closing of McAlester and Tulsa omnirange (omni) navigation facilities; Civil Aeronautics Medical Research Laboratory; employment.
F 33: Commerce: General (1957).
Cotton textile imports from Japan; Inter-American Highway; reduction in Public Lands Highways appropriations; establishment of Trade Policy Committee. Correspondents include: Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks.
F 34: Commerce: Patent Office (1957).
Patent applications; requests for information; General Information Concerning Patents, February 1957 (booklet).
F 35: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1957).
Precipitation maps of Oklahoma; list of rainfall at various locations in Oklahoma in May 1957.
F 36: Commerce: Census Bureau (1958).
Census searches; opening of census search office in Pittsburg, Kansas; blank application for search of census records; inclusion of radio and television questions in 1960 census.
F 37: Commerce: Civil Aeronautics Administration (1958).
Reactivation of medical research laboratory at Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City; inclusion of Tulakes Airport in Oklahoma City in Federal-aid Airport Program; installation of Very High Frequency Omni-directional Radio Range (VOR) near Kingfisher; employment; postponement of installation of VOR near Hugo.
F 38: Commerce: General (1958).
Press release re: functions of Trade Policy Committee; imports of stainless steel table flatware; bipartisan commission on world trade; relationship of domestic crude oil production to oil imports; shipping charges for package sent from France; analysis of bills about international trade; request for weather station at Coweta.
F 39: Commerce: Patent Office (1958).
Patent and copyright inquiries.
F 40: Commerce: Public Roads (1958).
Idea for national system of turnpikes; road construction; interstate highways; regulation of outdoor advertising; construction of interstate highway though Tinker Air Force Base; requirement that 90 percent of construction project employees be Oklahoma residents; Bureau of Public Roads analysis of Reader's Digest article on interstate highway program.
F 41: Commerce: Census Bureau (1959-1960).
Complaints about Census of Business; census search.
F 42: Commerce: General (1959).
Regulations governing cosmetology in foreign countries; commercial information on Kyoko Trading Comapny of Osaka, Japan; confirmation vote on Lewis Strauss as secretary of commerce. Correspondents include: Lewis Strauss.
F 43: Commerce: Patent Office (1959).
Trademarks; copyright; patents.
F 44: Commerce: Public Roads (1959).
Request for interstate overpass or underpass at a location in Caddo County; reimbursement to states for interstate highway expenditures; law requiring that 90% of construction project employees be Oklahoma residents; engineering contracts in Oklahoma for Federal-aid Highway Program; property of Sidwell Friends School to be lost as a result of Washington, D.C. highway; possibility of changes in U.S. Highway 66 in Winslow, Arizona; "New Trends in Contracting the Highway Program" (article) by Ellis Armstrong, Commissioner of Public Roads; surfacing of State Highway 199 in south-central Oklahoma; response to birthday greeting from Ellis Armstrong; Oklahoma House and Senate resolutions concerning State Highway 199.
F 45: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1959).
Weather reporting station for Adair County.
F 46: Commerce: Area Redevelopment Administration (1960-1961).
Memorandum on Area Redevelopment Act as it affects Oklahoma; application for loans and grants; outline of Comprehensive Planning and Area Redevelopment; speech notes of Rural Areas Development Program field representative; water supply for Stilwell Canning Company; water supply for Wagoner County project; Oklahoma Statewide Community Development Clinic; Department of Agriculture participation in rural development; designation of redevelopment areas; urban renewal programs.
F 47: Commerce: General (1960).
Standards for cast-iron soil pipe and fittings; request for population figures for Oklahoma townships for use in a population-guessing contest.
F 48: Commerce: Public Roads (1960).
Engineering contract for Lawton roads; project for connecting State Highways 87 and 21 in McCurtain County; Secondary Highway Program; drainage problems on State Highway 51 in Stillwater; tables of appropriations of Federal-aid Highway Program funds; Holsum Valley Forest Highway Road (Route 5), Heavener, Oklahoma; federal funds for roads; analysis of Reader's Digest article on the interstate highway program.
F 49: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1960).
Weather forecast from a UNIVAC computer for John F. Kennedy's inauguration as president; request for weather station at West Woodward Airport.
F 50: Commerce: General (1961).
Shipment of precision machine tools to the Soviet Union; cast-iron soil pipe specifications; Overall Economic Development Program approval for areas in eastern Oklahoma; request for new Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges to visit Oklahoma; dedication of Business Service Center in Washington, D. C. Correspondents include: Stanley Draper.
F 51: Commerce: Public Roads (1961).
Table of approximate appropriations of federal-aid primary, secondary and urban funds and interstate funds for 1963 to 1966; interstate highway routes; request of Senator Richard Russell for funding for highway in Georgia; Red Fork Expressway in Tulsa; relocation of highways around reservoirs; highway construction costs; remarks of Ellis L. Armstrong, commissioner of public roads; federal-state highway program.
F 52: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1961).
Long-range weather forecasting and weather control; awards for volunteer observers.
F 53-54: Commerce: Area Redevelopment Administration (1962).
Correspondence from Oklahoma communities and businesses requesting ARA funds; establishment of new banks; statistical profiles of McAlester, Muskogee, and Okmulgee-Henryetta redevelopment areas.
F 55: Commerce: Census Bureau (1962).
Projection of U.S. and Oklahoma population growth from 1960 to 1975.
F 56: Commerce: Weather Bureau (1962).
Long- and short-term forecast data for NASA; weather modification; weather observatory at Chickasha; weather station at Broken Bow.
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