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Alcohol, from grain, 153-154; from 

 petroleum, 153, 158 



Alkyd resins, 164 



Allegheny General Hospital, 244 



Alloys, steel, 48, 178, 197; chrome 

 steel, 179; manganese steel, 178; 

 molybdenum steel, 179; nickel steel, 

 179; stainless steel, 179; tungsten 

 steel, 179; vanadium steel, 179 



Altimeter, air pressure, 94; absolute 

 altimeter, 94-95, 142 



Aluminum, 48, 49, 107, 158, 166, 174, 

 175, 197; alloys, 175; Hall process, 

 174; in body, 219 



Aluminum citrate, 267 



Ambulance, plane, 234; train, 235 



American Institute of Architects, 23 



American Institute of Public Opin- 

 ion, survey of colds, 252 



American Bantam Car Company, 51 



American Glass Review, 192-193 



American Iron and Steel Institute, 

 184 



American Rocket Society, 93 



Amino acid, 170, 249-250, 254 



Ammonia, high-pressure synthesis of, 

 157, 161, 210 



A.M. ("amplitude modulation") ra- 

 dio, 143, 147 



Anesthesia, regional, 256 



Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 227 



Aniline, 160; dyes, 159 



Annealing, 193, 195 



Antiaircraft guns, controlled by Ra- 

 dar, 121 



Antibodies, 222; proteins, 202, 221 



Apartments, 23; prefabricated units, 

 24-26 



Appliances (See Household) 



Aralac, 170, 202 



Architectural Forum, on acoustics, 



32-33 



Arctic Ocean, in "Age of Air," 79 

 Armstrong, Edward R., 80 

 Army Air Corps, United States, 69, 



84, 98; super-bomber, 85 

 Army Medical Corps, United States, 



167; experiments with penicillin, 



2 43-244; hospitals, 228, 230-232, 234, 



235; rehabilitation of wounded, 

 237; sulfathiazole prophylaxis, 241- 

 242; training of doctors, 236 



Army Signal Corps, United States, 

 1 20, 140, 167 



Army, United States, 105-106, 167; 

 "health bomb," 242; recovery of 

 wounded, 228 



Arnold, General H. H., 85 



Aromatic hydrocarbons, 155 



Arsenic drugs, mapharsen, 241; sal- 

 varsan ("606"), 238 



Arthritis, 256 



Association of American Railroads, 

 Car Service Division, 106 



Atabrin, 247 



Atmospheric pressure, 82-84, 94 



Atom, radioactive, 257; atomic en- 

 ergy, 261-262; "made to order," 

 263-264; smashing, cyclotron, 262- 

 263 



Autogiro, 60; compared to helicop- 

 ter, 69 



Autoejector, for revival of dead ani- 

 mals, 255 



Automobile, 6, 42-59, 101; and jeep, 

 51-52; cost of postwar cars, 46- 

 47; engine, 44, 46; high-octane gas- 

 oline, 54-55; light metals, 53-54; 

 plastics and plywood, 43, 52-53, 54; 

 safety on highways, 43, 56-57; styl- 

 ists versus engineers, 45-46; visibil- 

 ity increased for driver, 43 



Automobile industry, 15, 26, 45-46, 

 97; competition with aviation in- 

 dustry, 58-59; problem of tools and 

 dies, 58; postwar dilemma, 57 



Automotive Engineers, Society of, 

 in 



Aviation industry, 97; Boeing Strato- 

 liner, Flying Fortress, 84-85; Con- 

 solidated Vultee, 79; Grumman 

 Aircraft Corporation, 90; Kaiser- 

 Hughes H-Ki, oo ; influence on 

 automobile design, 44; on furniture 

 designs, 35; light planes, 60; Mars 

 flying boat, 77; postwar prospects, 

 97-98; use of plastics, plywood, 53, 

 1 66, 191; plasticized paper, 187 



