INDEX 



Acetic acid, 158, 163 



Acetylene, 162 



Acids, acetic, 158; amino, 170, 254; 

 carbolic, 160; hydrochloric, 177; 

 naphthoxyacetic, 212; nitric, 163; 

 salicylic, 159; sulphuric, 162, 207 



Acrylate resins, 164; Lucite, 35, 36, 

 164; methyl methacrylate, 150, 

 164 



Adam, Flight Lieutenant, of Royal 

 Air Force, 84 



Aeronca, 60 



"Age of Air," 76, 79; health problems 

 of, 259 



Agriculture, 157; chemurgy, 199-203, 

 204-210, 215; electricity on farm, 

 267; farm buildings, 213-214; "farm 

 problem," 199-200; greenhouse 

 farms, 267-268; hydroponics (soil- 

 less agriculture), 211-212; jeep on 

 farm, 51-52, 60, 139, 214; long-term 

 prediction of weather, 213; ma- 

 chinery, 213; TV A programs, 210; 

 transportation, 214 



Agriculture, Department of, 210; 

 chemurgy, 109-203, 204, 210, 215; 

 Bureau of Home Economics, 216; 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, 212; Re- 

 gional Research Laboratories, 199, 

 205 



Air conditioning, 30-31; aided by 

 cheap electricity, 266; automobile, 

 42, 44; busses, 1 08; cities, 266; make 

 civilization move southward, 266- 

 267; railroad cars, 103 



Airlines, 7, 97-98, 101, 113, 114; and 

 first class mail, 6, 86, 98; and pas- 

 senger and freight revenue, 85-86; 

 Air Transport Command and 

 Naval Air Transport Service, 87- 



88; Eastern Airlines, 86; flexibility 

 of service, 78; glider "trains," oo- 

 92; Pan American, 76; Pennsylva- 

 nia-Central, 80; seadrome route, 80- 

 81; speed versus cost, 78-79; 

 United Airlines, 77; Western Air 

 Lines, 88 



Airlines, international, 98-100; CAB, 

 99; Pan American, 98; right of "in- 

 nocent passage," 99; Trippe, Juan, 

 favors international competition, 

 98-100 



Airplane, cargo and passenger, 9, 78, 

 80-90, 114, 170, 222; ambulance 

 plane, 234; Consolidated Vultee 

 airliner, 79; deicing equipment, 81- 

 82; engines, 86; Kaiser-Hughes 

 HKi, 90; loading techniques for 

 cargo, 88-89; pressurized cabins, 

 84-85; speed versus cost, 78-79; 

 Stratoliner, 81-82, 84; super-clip- 

 pers, 76 



Airplane, light planes, 12, 60-6 1, 98, 

 170; Aerocar, 71-72; Aeronca, 60; 

 Cessna, 60; converted into car, 70, 

 71; Er "coupe, 74; "grasshopper," 

 60-61; how to fly, 72-74; hydro- 

 matic propeller, 70, 83; landing 

 gears, 71, 74; Piper Cub, 60; safe 

 landings at night, 74-75, 141-142; 

 simplified flying, 74-^75; Skyfarer, 

 74; two-speed propeller, 70; wing 

 flaps, 74 



Air Transport Command, U. S. 

 Army, 87-88, 98 



Airways, Federal, System, 95-97; 

 Alaskan Airways System, 96; Civil 

 Aeronautics Administration, 95 



Alaska, in "Age of Air," 80, 87; Air- 

 ways System, 96 



Alchemists, 262; transmutation of 

 matter, 262 



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