Index 



287 



6, 7; revolutionizing of transport 



to aid farmer, 214 

 Trees, bark of, for clothing, 5 

 Trinitrotoluene (TNT), 160 

 Trippe, Juan, 98-100 

 Triptane, 55 

 Tropopause, 84 

 Trucks, 101-102; NRPB report on, 



107; "Truck of Future," 108; war 



job, 107 



Trueta, Jose, 233-234 

 Tryptophane, arnino acid, 170, 249 

 Tuberculosis, 257 

 Tung oil, 204 

 Tungsten, 30, 116, 117, 179 

 Turbine, gas, 103; steam, 104 

 Turpentine, 209 



Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 200 

 Typhoid fever, 249; vaccine, 249 

 Tyrian purple, 159 



U 



Ultrahigh frequency, 95-96; in Radar, 

 120; in television, 133-134, 146- 



J 47 



Underconsumption, and "farm prob- 

 lem," 199-200; during 19305, 8 



Union Carbide and Carbon Corpora- 

 tion, 162 



United Aircraft Corporation, Sikor- 

 sky Division of, 65 



United Nations, 98, 100 



United States Rubber Company, 154 



United States Steel Company, 81 



Urea, 163-164 



Urea formaldehyde, 163 



Uskol, 154 



Vacuum, perfect, 04 

 Vacuum tube, 116-117 

 Vaccines, 249 



V Day plans, reconversion, 57 

 Vanadium, 48, 179 

 Vanillin, 190, 208 



Van Itallie, Philip, 225-226 

 Vickery, Rear Admiral Howard L., 



65 



Vienna, University of, 238 

 Vinylidene chloride, 164 

 Vinyl resins, 164; polyvinyl butral, 



164 



Viruses, filterable, 252, 253, 257 

 Vitamins, 218-220; Bi, 223, 250, C, K, 



229; biotin, 250; for old age, 259; 



niacin, 250; riboflavin, 250 

 "Voo Doo," 92 

 Vortex gun, 270-271; as antiaircraft 



weapon, 271; to rid cities of smoke, 



271-272 



Vortex motion, 271 

 Vycor, 194 



W 



Wagner, Dr. Martin, 214 

 Waksman, Dr. Selman A., 246 

 "Walkie-talkie," 139; postwar use on 



farms, 214 



Wallace, Dr. James E., 244 

 Walnut shells, 204 

 War, gains and losses from, i; two 



world wars, 2, 3, 4 

 War Information, Office of, 97, 105- 



106, 185, 228, 234-235, 236, 237 

 Warner, Edward, 78-79 

 War Production Board (WPB), Of- 

 fice of Production Research and 



Development, 183 

 War Shipping Administration, no, 



112 



Washington, Booker T., 200 

 Water, distilled, 230 

 Water supply, 248-249 

 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert, 121 

 Waves, radio, 143; "carrier," 144 

 Waxy corn, 202 

 Weather, changes in, 252; prediction 



of, 213 



Weaver, Don .,52 

 Welding, and electronics, 130, 162; 



in shipbuilding, 109 

 Wendt, Gerald, 151 



