Index 



275 



Avidin, 251 



Axes, vertical, longitudinal, lateral of 

 plane, 72-74 



B 



Babb, Charles H., 89 



Bacon, Roger, 272 



Baird Company, 134 



Baldwin, Hanson W., 121 



Banting, Sir Frederick, 85 



Bathrooms, 36-37 



"Bathtub butyl," 155 



"Battle of Britain," 85 



Battleship, 173; plastics in, 150; radio 

 equipment, 140; use of Radar, 121 



Bauxite, 174 



Beechnut Packing Company, 223 



Beefsteak, synthetic, 227 



Bel Geddes, Norman, 15 



Bellamy, Edward, 272 



Bellevue Hospital, Cancer Division 

 of, 251 



Bell Telephone Laboratories, 162-163 



Belmont Iron Works, 81 



Benjamin, Dr. Harry, 258-259 



Benzol, 160-161 



Bergius, Professor Friederich, 189- 

 190 



Beryllium, 181-182; copper alloy, 48, 

 182; nickel alloy, 49, 182; safety 

 tools, 182; work on aluminum and 

 magnesium alloys, 49, 182 



Better Homes and Gardens, 269 



Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Inc., 

 205 



Biggers, John D., 197 



Biotin, 250; avidin, 251; cancer re- 

 search, 251-252 



Blauvelt, Hiram, 259 



Bliven, Bruce, 263 



Bloeth, William, no 



Blood, cells, 230; disease treated with 

 radioactive phosphorus, 263; red 

 cells used on wounds, infections, 

 254 



Blood, clotting of, 236; M rays 

 "broadcast" by, 258 



Blood, donor, 230-231, 253-254 

 Blood and Plasma Exchange Bank, 



253-254 



Blood, plasma, 87, 227, 228, 230, 231; 

 Blood and Plasma Exchange Bank, 

 253-254; preparation of, 230; sub- 

 stitute for, 254 



Blood, types, 230 



Boeing Aircraft Company, 84-85 



Boeing 6-17 Flying Fortress, 43, 84- 

 85, 141, 150, 172 



Boiling point, 84 



Borsook, Henry, 218 



Bothezat, George de, 67-68 



Brain, surgery, 257 



Brass (copper, zinc), 180 



Brazil, 168 



Bread, enriched, 217 



British Broadcasting Company, 134 



British Journal of Experimental Path- 

 ology, 244 



British Overseas Airways, 98 



Broadcasting, sound and television, 

 136-137; "band," 146-147 



"Broken stowage," in cargo-ship load- 

 ing, IIO-III 



Bronze (copper, zinc, tin), 180 

 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 190 

 Browning, Robert, "Andrea del 



Sarto," 261 



Budd, Edward G., 103, 108 

 Building and Loan Associations, 27- 



28 



Building codes, 27 

 Buna N type, synthetic rubber, 154 

 Buna S, synthetic rubber, 152, 153- 



154 



Bureau of the Census, 135 

 Bureau of Mines, 183-184 

 Bushnell General Hospital, 243 

 Business, opportunities in postwar 



period, 8, 10, n, 98 

 Busses, 101-102; NRPB report on, 



1 08; postwar designs, 108 

 Butadiene, 153, 161, 162; and furfural, 



207 



Butyl, synthetic rubber, 155 

 Butylene gas, 212 



