Index 



281 



Land, Admiral Emory S., 112-113 



Landing gear, 71, 74 



Land, renting of, 17, 26 



Landing strips, for planes, 56; "fly- 

 ways," 97 



Langewiesche, Wolfgang, 86, 97 



"Laundering" the air, with Precipi- 

 tron, 30 



Lead, 181 



Lederle Laboratories, 243 



Leith, Dr. C. K., 183 



Lend-Lease, 105, 106, 217, 235 



Lewisite, 155 



Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, 

 197 



Life, 138 



Life Insurance Companies, 27-28 



Ulllustration, 138 



Life, expectancy, 258; gerontother- 

 apy, 258-259 



Lignin, 208 



Liners, ocean, 114 



Linseed oil, 204 



Lippman, William A., Jr., 88 



Lissitzyn, Oliver J., International Air 

 Transport and National Policy, 100 



Lithium, 181 



Little, Arthur D., Inc., Industrial Bul- 

 letin, 206, 244-245 



Loading techniques, for airplanes, 88- 

 89; for cargo ships, no-iii 



"Locomotive" plane, 5, 90-91, 98 



Loening, Grover C., 90-91 



Lohr, Lenox R., Television Broad- 

 casting, 136-139 



Long, Dr. Perrin, 239 



Lovette, Captain Leland P., 65 



Lucite, 35-36, 164, 256 



M 



Mack Truck Company, 107 

 Madder, 159 



Magee, Major General James C., 243 

 "Magic bullets," 238, 242 

 Magnesium, 48, 49, 107, 177-178; 



"mined" from ocean, 176-177 

 Mail, first class, to go by air, 6, 86, 



Malaria, 247, 248; problem in "Age of 

 Air," 259 



Manchester, Harland, 183 



Manganese, 48, 178 



Mantell, C. L., Sparks from the Elec- 

 trode, 177 



Mapharsen, 241 



Maps, mercator-type, 79 



Maritime Commission, United States, 

 65, in, 112 



Marks, Robert W., 183 



Martin, Glenn L., 76-77, 97-98 



Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, 

 246 



Mayo Clinic, 245 



McMillen, Wheeler, 200 



"Mechanical cow," 226-227 



Medical Society of the County of 

 New York, 253 



Medical World, The, 258-259 



Medicine, wartime, 228-237; atabrin, 

 247; "closed treatment" for frac- 

 tures, 232-234; gramicidin, 245; 

 penatin, 245; penicillin, 242-245; 

 plasma, 227, 228, 230, 231, 253; sulfa 

 drugs, 229, 230, 231, 232, 237-242; 

 surgery, 232, 233, 234, 236, 255, 257 



Melamine resins, 167 



Meningitis, 241; haemophilus influ- 

 enzae, 241; meningococcus, 241; 

 streptococcus, 241 



Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 109, 

 112 



Merchant Marine, United States, 100, 

 109, 112 



Merck & Co., 243 



Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 

 196 



Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and 

 Beane, 171, 267 



Metals, lightweight, 6, 42, 48, 103, 170, 

 172-178 (See Aluminum, Magne- 

 sium) 



Metallurgy, 49, 170, 170-180, 182, 184; 

 powder, 182-183 



Meteorology, 213 



Methanol, 160 



Methyl methacrylate, 150, 164, 256 



Metycaine, 256 



