Contents ix 



ing upon the Enemy via Television . . . Television 

 Prospects in America . . . The Actor Comes into 

 His Own . . . The Fighting Man's "Nerve Center" 

 . . . Indestructible Radios for the Armed Forces 

 . . . Radio Safety Devices ... A Word about Fre- 

 quencies . . . Sending Pictures by Radio. 



X CHEMISTRY MAGIC 149 



The incredible plastics . . . Precious Synthetic Rub- 

 ber . . . How Synthetic Rubber Is Made . . . Bless 

 John Barleycorn . . ."Bathtub" Rubber . . . Syn- 

 thetic Rubber Is Here to Stay . . . Untapped Re- 

 sources in Natural Rubber . . . An Exploit of the 

 Century . . . Fabulous New Wealth . . .The Great 

 Compounds. . .The Super-super By-Product: Coal 

 Tar ... A Ton of Coal ... OH, the Chemist's 

 Proxy for Coal . . . The Plastics . . . The Hard 

 Resilient Plastics . . . Plastics from the Ocean . . . 

 Replacing Light Metals . . . Plastic Bearings . . . 

 Achieving the Impossible . . . Winning Chemical 

 Leadership from Germany . . . Breaking the Japa- 

 nese Camphor Monopoly . . . Creating New 

 Wealth in Agriculture . . . Synthetic Textiles . . . 

 Postwar Predictions. 



XI METALS THAT BUILD NEW WORLDS 172 



Manufacture of war planes stimulated development 

 of new metals . . . The Story of Aluminum . . . 

 The Ocean as a Treasure Chest . . . One Pound of 

 Magnesium . . ."Tailor-Made" Steel . . . Precious 

 Common Metals . . . Uncommon Metals . . . 

 Beryllium the Magic Metal . . ."Powder Metal- 

 lurgy." 



XII WOOD, PAPER, AND GLASS TRANSFORMED 185 



New treatments of paper . . . Nazi Germany's Re- 

 liance on Wood . . . American Advances in Wood 

 Chemistry . . . Warm Clothes from the Bark of 

 Trees . . . New Treatments for New Tensile 

 Strengths . . . Forest Conservation . . . Glass Mir- 

 acles . . . New Techniques in Glassmaking. 



