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I'm looking for an official (.gov) for the original text of Public Law 86-90 which was a proclamation by Eisenhower in 1959 establishing [[Captive Nations Week]].[[User:Smallman12q|Smallman12q]] ([[User talk:Smallman12q|talk]]) 12:10, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

:Not sure about that but {{JSTOR|126589}} may be of some use, as may [http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-108JPRT88465/html/CPRT-108JPRT88465.htm]. I'm sure you're already aware of [http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/n/nat_cap_nat.htm this collection]. At [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11453#axzz1LWRBoXvU this transcript] of the 22 July 1959 Eisenhower press conference, it includes
{{quote|Now, as far as the resolution about the captive nations, this was a resolution by the Congress, asked me to issue a proclamation, which I did; and asked the United States to conduct ceremonies in memory of the plight of such peoples. 1

:::1 The Joint Resolution (S.J. Res. 111), designating the third week of July as "Captive Nations Week," is Public Law 86-90 (73 Stat. 212). On July 17 the President issued Proclamation 3303 "Captive Nations Week, 1959" (24 F.R. 5773), urging the people of the United States "to study the plight of the Soviet-dominated nations and to recommit themselves to the support of the just aspirations of the peoples of those captive nations." }}

:Accordingly, we might try a search for "73 Stat. 212" or "24 F.R. 5773". The former finds [http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6tyFAAAAMAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR4&dq=%2273+Stat.+212%22+&ots=yKxaqdAAIW&sig=aO5X4kM0llEmDqPP_gwokbT6IOs#v=onepage&q=%2273%20Stat.%20212%22&f=false this book] which has LBJ's consequent proclamations. It also finds {{JSTOR|2203718}} which mentions it in passing under the title "Repealing the Cold War". Hope some of this helps.[[User:LeadSongDog|LeadSongDog]] <small>[[User talk:LeadSongDog#top|<span style="color:red; font-family:Papyrus;">come howl!</span>]]</small> 23:25, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

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Can anyone see [http://books.google.com/books?id=RydRAAAAYAAJ this] at GBooks in better than snippet view? I am interested in the contents from page 96, in relation to [[The Lancashire Steel Company]]. Thanks. - [[User:Sitush|Sitush]] ([[User talk:Sitush|talk]]) 19:01, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

:It appears [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%22Iron_and_Steel_Manufacture%22_Kohn&qt=results_page here] that there are multiple variations on the cataloguing data for that work. I've left a comment at worldcat that may lead to consolidation of the records, but in any case there are many libraries that seem to hold it. Gbooks seems to frequently put PDold works up in snippet view, for no evident reason. It appears that the gbook id which Sitush is looking for is actually [http://books.google.com/books?id=jU0MAQAAMAAJ&q=Lancashire jU0MAQAAMAAJ], which refers to the 1868 edition. [[User:LeadSongDog|LeadSongDog]] <small>[[User talk:LeadSongDog#top|<span style="color:red; font-family:Papyrus;">come howl!</span>]]</small> 04:16, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

:I managed to get this from searching several strings on Google Books and piecing them together:<blockquote>The Bessemer steelworks erected by the Lancashire Steel Company at Gorton, and as yet scarcely completed to half their intended extent, form an object of unusual interest with regard to that particular element of economy in ironworks, viz., the convenience of general arrangement. The works at Gorton are intended for the manufacture of rails, bars, plates, tyres, and forgings of Bessemer steel. It is purposed to erect in them four pairs of 5-ton converters. The area inclosed by the walls is of a rectangular shape, adjoining on one side a line of railway from which two sidings lead into the large yard for storing raw material — this yard being 560 feet long and 180 feet wide.<div>The workshops are designed as a rectangular block of buildings and sheds, 480 feet long and 410 feet in total width, there being eight spans of 60 feet each. The roofs are carried upon longitudinal girders supported by...</div></blockquote>The rest I cannot get. [[User:Goodvac|Goodvac]] ([[User talk:Goodvac|talk]]) 16:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

::Continuing the approach,:

"...ance at the mouth of the converter, and is done for the purpose of heating the charge by the combustion of the charcoal within the vessel. This is said to be particularly effective when "white iron," or iron containing a small percentage of carbon, is worked in the converter. The supply of additional heat to the charge during the period of desilicatization maintains the mass in a state of sufficient fluidity until the combustion of the carbon contained in the iron itself is so far advanced as to require no further supply of heat. The spectroscope has been tried at Neuberg by Professor Liellegg, but the results have not been favourable; at least, the employment of the spectroscope has not been introduced for practical purposes."[missing text]

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"originally on a very large scale, and for a clearly-defined line of operations. The natural course of the slow growth of works, most frequently commenced with limited means, and very often without expectation of the amount of future extensions which ultimately become necessary, is not favourable to convenience and beauty of general arrangement. Changes in methods of manufacture, increased machinery, and increased plant, as they come into use one after the other, must be accommodated within a space already occupied, and subdivided by the existing arrangement of the works; and so it happens that the appearance of the majority of our great works is that of an agglomeration of buildings, machinery, and appliances of all kinds, strewed over an irregular..."

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"general disposition is more than usually suited to the work they have to carry out. The Bessemer steelworks erected by the Lancashire Steel Company at Gorton, and as yet scarcely completed to half their intended extent, form an object of unusual interest with regard to that particular element of economy in ironworks, viz., the convenience of general arrangement. The works at Gorton are intended for the manufacture of rails, bars, plates, tyres, and forgings of Bessemer steel. It is purposed to erect in them four pairs of 5-ton converters. The area inclosed by the walls is of a rectangular shape, adjoining on one side a line of railway from which two sidings lead into the large yard for storing raw material — this yard being 560 feet long and 180 feet wide.<div>The workshops are designed as a rectangular block of buildings and sheds, 480 feet long and 410 feet in total width, there being eight spans of 60 feet each. The roofs are carried upon longitudinal girders supported by..."</div>

(continuing on page 97)

"...by cast-iron columns, placed at distances of 32 feet apart. Each division, covered by one roof, contains only one class of machinery, so that the materials pass in a straight line from one shed into the other when going through the different stages of manufacture, thus going across the whole building. The first roof covers all melting furnaces for pig iron and spiegeleisen, and the boilers for the blowing engine. The second span contains all converters, placed in one straight line, each pair in a separate pit, fitted with the usual hydraulic cranes and machinery. The blowing engines are situated at each of the ends of this span. The third space of 60 feet is used as a clear space for storing ingots; then follows the shed for the steam hammers; then a row of reheating furnaces, the rolling mills, with another row of furnaces; and the last space for finishing the work produced by the mills. A rectangular open space is left on all four sides of the buildings, this space forming the storeyard and passages for communications. The whole ground is inclosed on three sides by long lines of buildings, forming the repairing shops, offices, storehouses, &c.