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Index 



44; rear-engine installation, 44; 

 weight, 47 



Engine, aviation, 86; "flat-opposed," 

 70; light plane, 60, 70; Wright Cy- 

 clone, 77; rocket motor, 93-94 



Engineering and Research Corpora- 

 tion, 74 



Eratosthenes of Gyrene, 272 



Erosion, water and wind, 200, 210; 

 after first World War, 211 



Erysipelas, 242 



Ether, 162 



Ethyl cellulose, 166 



Ethylene dicholoride, 162 



Ethylene glycol, 162 



Eugenol, 158 



Europe, protein deficiency in, 221- 



222 



Evans, Colonel Edward S., 79-80, 



91-92 



Evans Products Company, 79 

 Expansion, coefficient of, 194 

 Explosives, 159; cotton linters for, 

 204, 205; dynamite, 204; nitrogen 

 for, 167-168; predicted by Roger 

 Bacon, 272; TNT, 160, 161, 162 

 Eyestrain, and better lighting, 29-30 



Factory-residential towns, 214 

 Farbenindustrie, I.G., 238, 247 

 "Farm problem," 199-200 

 Fatigue, measured by M rays, 258 

 Federal Government, compromise 



building code, 27 

 Fellows, Julian R., 3 1 

 Fertilizer, 157, 160, 161, 167, 210 

 Fiberglas, 195-196 

 Flax, straw, 203 

 Fleming, Dr. Alexander, 242 

 Fleming, Professor J. A., 116, 132 

 Fleming valve, 116 

 Florey, Dr. H. W, 243 

 Fluorescent lighting, 29-30, 40, 103, 



267 

 Fluorine, prevents tooth decay, 269; 



in production of cryolite, 174 

 Flying boats, 76-77, 88, 90, 98 



Flying, simplified, 72, 74; at night, 



74-75 



Foamglas, 195 



Food, 1 68, 216-227; bread, enriched, 

 217; dehydrated, 222-225; diet, 216, 

 218, 219-220; "mechanical cow," 

 226-227; peanuts, 201; soy beans, 

 203; storage of, 195; sweet pota- 

 toes, 200-201; uneducated buying 

 of, 218; utility companies, 269; 

 waste of, 217, 219 



Food Distribution Administration, 

 217, 219 



"Food for Freedom,'* 211 



Forbes magazine, 183 



Ford Motor Company, 52, 53, 168 



Formaldehyde, 162, 163 



Fowler, Harlan D., 89-90 



Fractures, "closed treatment" for, 

 232-234 



P.M. (frequency modulation) radio, 



i43 H7 



Fortune magazine, 37 

 Fort Worth Press, 52 

 Froesch, Charles, 86 

 "Froth flotation," 184 

 Fuller, R. Buckminster, 16-17 

 Furfural, 206-207 

 Furnace, smokeless, 31-32; oilburn- 



ing, 40 

 Furniture, 34-35, 165 



Gahagan, Andrew J., 182 

 Galdston, Dr. lago, Behind the Sulfa 



Drugs, 237, 238, 242 

 Gas gangrene, 240-241 

 Gasoline, high-octane, 42, 54-55, 109; 

 "triptane," 55; hydrocarbons, 162, 

 171 



Gelmo, P., 238 



General Aircraft Corporation, 74 

 General Electric Company, 82 

 General Electric Research Laborato- 

 ries, 118, 177, 186 



General Hospital of Catalonia, 233 

 General Motors Corporation, 14, 50 

 General Tire & Rubber Co., 151-152 



