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Index 



Public Affairs Committee, 18 



Public Health, 248-249; in "Age of 

 Air," 259; Service, 259 



Public Service Company of Chicago, 

 224 



Pullman Car & Manufacturing Cor- 

 poration, 1 02 



Pushee, H. B., 151-152 



Pyrex, 194 



Quaker Oats Company, 206 



Quartz, 158 



Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 238 



Queen Mary, 1 14 



Quinine, substitute, 246; atabrin, 247 



R 



Radar (Radio Detecting and Rang- 

 ing), 142; aid to aviation, 95; as 

 aid to motorist, 57; at Pearl Har- 

 bor, 120; in "Battle of Britain," 119; 

 operation of, 120-121; postwar uses, 

 121-122; tantalum used in, 181 



Radiator, automobile, 46 



Radiator, home, 33 



Radio, 34, 132-133* H 2 - I 44> H 8 ; ab- 

 solute altimeter, 94-95; beams to 

 guide motorists, 57; for liaison 

 planes, 61; range and marker sta- 

 tions, 95; safety in blind-landings, 

 141-142; Signal Corps equipment, 

 139; superradio stations of CAA, 

 96; traffic control, 56 



Radioactivity, 263 



Radio City Music Hall, 119 



R.C.A. Radio-Electric Laboratories, 

 116 



Radiodynamic control, of ships, 268 



Radio frequency (R.F.) heating, 122- 



"4 m 



Radio industry, in wartime, 139-142 



Radium, 257, 263 



Railplane, 102 



Railroads, 7, 8, 101-106; and cheap 

 electricity, 268; "Battle of Trans- 

 portation," 104-106; Diesel engines, 



103; history of, 101; improved 

 locomotives, 103; lightweight cars, 

 102-103; Railplane, 102; turbines, 

 103 



Ramie, 204 



Rationing, 225 



Rations, U. S. Army, 223-224, 226- 

 227, 269 



Raw materials, crisis in, 3, 4 



Rayon, 43, 205 



Reduction gears, in airplane engine, 



83 



Refinery, 162; gases, 162 

 Refrigerator, 37-38; thermocouple, 



265 



Remmelkamp, Dr. Charles H., 246 

 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 173 

 Research and Planning Associates, 24 

 Richards, Dr. A. N., 244 

 Rich, Leo H., 57 

 Robinson, Dr. George H., 244 

 Robinson, Admiral S. M., 173 

 Robsjohn-Gibbings, T. H., 34-35 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, 218 

 Rocket power (jet propulsion), 93; 



operation of rocket motor, 93 

 Roebling, John A., Company, 81 

 Rohde, Gilbert, 34 

 Roosevelt, Jr., Franklin D., 239 

 Rosin, 209 

 Rubber, natural, 151, 164; compared 



with synthetic, 152, 154, 155, 165; 



future of, 156-157; plantations, 151, 



156 

 Rubber, synthetic, 151-156; Buna S, 



152-154; Buna N, 154; Butyl, 155; 



furfural as solvent, 207; Neoprene, 



154; postwar prospects of, 156; 

 Thiokols, A, B, and FA, 155; Thio- 



kol RD, 154; Uskol, 154 

 Rutgers University, 246 

 Rutherford, Sir Ernest, 262 



Salesmen, in postwar period, 8, 98 

 Salicylic acid, 159 

 Sanders, Walter B., 24-26 



