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[[red underline]] formates [[/red underline]] and it looks now as if for this and for oxalates we may be able to avoid existing patents.  Laid out further work also gave directions for preparing simple laboratory apparatus with which to make demonstration for my affidavit in answer to objections filed against Vayzouny patent in patent office.  Evening met [[red underline]] Dr. Peter [[/red underline]] at Mouguin for supper.  Coming home find [[red underline]] arbitration in Stevenson case has resulted against us. [[/red underline]]
March 25 Another one of the succeeding beautiful mild days we have had ever since I returned.  Two days ago I read in Chemiter Zeitung that [[red underline]] three more chemists of Bakelite Gesellschaft [[/red underline]] have been killed in war.  [[red underline]] Dr. [[Sammiter?]] [[/red underline]] our patent expert was reported killed at the beginning of the war, now three more and
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among them is [[red underline]] Dr. Mampel, [[/red underline]] a serious, able and competent man for whom I [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] always have had very high regards. -- There is a [[red underline]] rumor [[/red underline]] since some days that [[red underline]] the war will be over by next summer. [[/red underline]]  Bets are being made down town equal money to that effect.  I wish it were so but I am reluctant to believe it.
Spent almost all day dictating comments on arguments of lawyer of [[red underline]] Pollack [[/red underline]] in his appeal against decision in my favor in Berlin in relation to heat and pressure patent.
Friday 26.  At 10 A.M. at [[red underline]] Hooker office [[/red underline]] in conference Bush, E.H. Hooker, H.W.H and A.H. Hooker, Townsend and Lister.  Long discussion on contemplated [[hash mark 6 hours in margin]] manufacture of [[red underline]] liquid bleach, chlorate of sodium, perchlorate of ammonium [[/red underline]] and how to increase our output of NaOH in these times [[red underline]] when the price of