Scientific Information Activities of Federal Agencies

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National Science Foundation, 1958

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Page 12 - The Secretary shall cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under this Act, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof. (b) The Secretary may also cause to be disseminated information regarding food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in situations involving, in the opinion of the Secretary, imminent danger to health, or gross deception of the consumer. Nothing in this section shall be construed to...
Page 5 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 3 - Service, shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 21 - trade-mark" includes any word, name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify his goods and distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others.
Page 5 - Into, and for the solution of, problems of flight within and outside the. earth's atmosphere and to develop, construct, test, and operate aeronautical and space vehicles for research purposes.
Page 3 - provide, or arrange for the provision of, indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information" and to "undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 10 - American reports are put on sale by the Office of Technical Services of the US Department of Commerce and these may be bought, with some difficulty, through HM Stationery Office.
Page 17 - Exchange is supported jointly by the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Science Foundation, the Veterans' Administration, the Federal Aviation Agency, and the Smithsonian Institution which also acts as the contracting agency.
Page 19 - It examines applications for patents to determine if the applicants are entitled to patents under the law and grants the patents when they are so entitled; it publishes issued patents and various publications concerning patents...
Page 19 - ... patents. It examines applications for patents to determine if the applicants are entitled to patents under the law and grants the patents when they are so entitled; it publishes issued patents...

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