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Index 



Western Air Lines, 88 



Westinghouse Electric & Manufac- 

 turing Company, 166, 196, 270-271 



Westinghouse Research Laboratories, 

 30, 1 66 



Wetherby, John M., 149-150 



Willys-Overland Motor Co., 57 



Wing flaps, 74, 89 



Wirth Steel Company, 81 



Wohler, Friedrich, 164, 174 



Wood, 157, 158, 198; American prog- 

 ress in wood chemistry, 190-192; 

 cellulose, 208; German program, 

 188-190; lignin, 208; "Teco" ring, 

 191; war jobs of, 185 



Woodruff, Dr. H. Boyd, 246 



Wounded, recovery of, 228 



Wright Field, Ohio, 65 



Wright, Frank Lloyd, 19 



Wright, Russel and Mary, 36 



X ray, 124-125, 130; diffraction cam- 

 era, 125; fluoroscopic screen, 231, 

 232; "liminograph," 130; mobile, 

 231-232 



Xylol, 160 



Yates, Raymond, 117; 2,100 Needed 



Inventions, 265, 267 

 Yellow fever, 249 

 You magazine, 219 

 Young, Leo C., 120-121 



Zeder, Fred M., 46, 47-48 

 Zinc, 1 80 



