Index 



285 



Saran, 164-165 



Sarnoff, David, 94 



Savings banks, 26-28 



Scarab car, 47 



Schmidt camera, 136 



Science Digest, 117 



Scientific Research and Develop- 

 ment, Office of, 243 



Scripps-Howard newspapers, 199, 238 



Seadromes, 80-8 1 



Selenium, 181; photovoltaic cell, 264 



Servicemen, in postwar period, 8, 98 



Seys, Squadron Leader R. G. t of 

 Royal Air Force, 92 



Shaver, Dr. W. W., 194 



Shipbuilding, 109-110 



Shipping, postwar policy of U. S., 

 112; tramp shipping, 112 



Ships, cargo, 100-111; liners, 114; ra- 

 diodynamic control of, 268 



Shock, 230; plasma transfusions, 231 



Shoe soles, of cotton, 205 



Siemens Halske, 182 



Sikorsky, Igor I., 7, 61-63, 64-65, 66- 



6? 



Silicon, 158, 181, 194 



Silver, 180 



Sinus infections, treated with grami- 

 cidin, 246 



Small, Captain Lisle F., 1 1 1 



Smith, Geddes, Plague on Us, 248-249 



Smith, J. Kent, 182 



Smith, M. W., 103-104 



Smoke, cleared from air by vortex 

 gun, 271-272 



Soap, 209 



Socony- Vacuum Oil Company, 54 



Sodium, 152, 174 



Sodium sulphate, 193 



Soil conservation, 210 



Solomon Islands campaign, recovery 

 of wounded in, 228, 236 



Soundproofing, 13, 32 



Sound waves, 143 



Southern Friction Materials Com- 

 pany, 205 



Southern pine, 208 



Soviet Institute of Experimental Biol- 

 ogy. 255 



Soy beans, 168; products from, cloth- 

 ing, 203; cosmetics, 203; foods, 203; 

 house furnishings, 203; industrial 

 materials, medicines, 203; rich in 

 protein, 202 



Spanish Civil War, 233 



Spann, Colonel George F., 248 



Spectrophotometer, 126-127 



Spitfire, 85, 119 



Squibb, E. R., & Sons, 243 



Stall, in flying, 74 



Standardization, importance of in 

 low-cost products, 26; in houses, 



15 



Standard of living of all must be 

 raised, 10 



Standard Oil Company of New Jer- 

 sey, 154-155. 1*5 



Stanton, C. I., 113-114 



Staphylococcus, 240; penicillin effec- 

 tive against, 243 



Steam engine, efficiency compared 

 with Diesel, 50; improved steam 

 locomotive, 103-104 



Steam-power plant, efficiency of, 



50 



Steel, lightgauge, for automobile 

 bodies, 53-54; for trailers, 108; for 

 railroad cars, 103 (see Alloys) 



Steinmetz, Dr. Charles P., 266 



Stevens Institute of Technology, 187 



Stine, Dr. Charles M. A., 45, 157, 261 



Stokley, James, Science Remakes Our 

 World, 118-119, 134-136, 264 



Stout, William, 47, 48, 68-69, 70, 71- 

 72, 102 



Stratoliner, Boeing, 81-82, 84, 85 



Stratosphere, problems of flight in, 

 83-85 



Streptococcus, 239, 240, 246 



Streptothricin, 246 



Stroboscope, 128-129 



Styrene, 153, 161 



Submarine, 111-112; hunted by heli- 

 copter, 65, Radar, 120 



Subway, Sixth Avenue, New York 

 City, 32 



Sugar, from wood, 5, 180-190 



Sulfadiazine, 229, 239-240 



