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Index 



Meyer, Dr. A. J., 243 



Micarta, 166 



Microphone, 143-144 



Microscope, 263; predicted by Roger 

 Bacon, 272 



Midgley, Dr. Thomas, Jr., 55 



Miles,}. C, 31 



Milk, 202, 226; Aralac, 170, 202; 

 casein, 202; "mechanical cow," 226- 

 227 



Minerals, in diet, 218, 210-220 



Minneapolis-Honeywell Co., 196 



"Mitogenetic rays" (M rays), dis- 

 covered by Russian Dr. Gurwich, 



257-258 



Molybdenum, 48, 179 

 Monel metal (copper, nickel, iron), 



180 



Monomer, 152 

 Monro, C. Bedell, 80-8 1 

 Monroy, Johann Albrecht von, 188- 



189 



Monsanto Chemical Company, 165 

 Moss, Dr. Sanford B., 82 

 Motion picture industry, 33, 146 

 Mudd, Major Richard D., 231 



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Naphthalene, 161 

 Naphthoxyacetic acid, 212 

 Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, 14 

 National Association of Manufactur- 

 ers, 206, 214-215 

 N.E. (National Emergency) steels, 



179-180 

 National Farm Chemurgic Council, 



200 



Naval Research Laboratory, 120 

 National Resources Planning Board 



(NRPB), 27, 106, 108, 215 

 Naval Air Transport Service, 88, 98 

 Naval stores industry in South, 208- 



209 



Navy, United States, 88, 98, in, 197; 

 battleships, 173, 121, 140, 150; 

 equipment, 235; hospital ships, 236; 

 recovery of wounded, 228; rehabil- 

 itation of wounded, 237; penicillin, 



experiments with, 244; sulfathiazole 

 prophylaxis, 241-242 



Nelson, Paul, 21, 22 



Neoprene, 154, 161, 162, 165 



Nerve, operations, 256 



Neurosurgeon, 256 



New Jersey Agriculture Experiment 

 station, 246 



New Republic, 263 



News, television broadcasting of, 138 



Neivsiveek, 122 



New York City, traffic congestion, 

 56 



New York Herald Tribune, 176, 259 



New York Times, 85, 121, 156-157, 

 253, 255, 266 



New York Times Magazine, 175 



New York University, College of 

 Medicine, 251 



New York World-Telegram, 45, 1 10, 

 196 



Nickel, 179, 1 80 



Nitrogen, 167, 168; and biotin, 250; 

 changed to hydrogen by "bom- 

 bardment," 262 



Noctovision, 134 



Normandie, 114 



North African campaign, recovery 

 of wounded in, 228 



North American P-52 Mustang, 172 



Northern spruce, 208 



North Pole, "crossroads of com- 

 merce," 79 



Nylon, 1 60, 169, 256 



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Oat hulls, 206; furfural, 206-207 



Oberlin College, 174 



Ocean, 158; storehouse of minerals, 



175-176 



Ogburn, William F., 266-267 

 Old age, diseases of, 258-259; geron- 



totherapy, 258-259 

 O'Neill, Jonn J., 176 

 Onion root "broadcasts," 257-258 

 Ontario Paper Company, 207 

 Optical glass, 196 

 Ores, low-grade, 183 



