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136 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] in solution until it is all reduced. [[red underline]] Tessie Middlebrook here ran away from home after quarrel with her mother. [[/red underline]] Evening went to movies in Yonkers with Celine. April 30. Rainy weather. At 1 P.M to office of [[red underline]] Royal Baking Powder [[/red underline]] Co. to meet Geary and Porter. Reported we got 90% in formate unit and Sutherland got 98% in glyoxylic unit. Explained present difficulties of situation as [[red underline]] I do not like to jump from small plant in Brooklyn to a million Dollar plant which is the minimum profitable commercial unit. [[/red underline]] [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 4 h. [[/symbol and annotation]] Explained possibility of perhaps combining with an existing plant like Hooker but for the fact that Elon [[red underline]] Hooker [[/red underline]] very naturally and very justly wants to keep [[end page]] [[start page]] 137 control of his enterprise. (Charge 4 hours). Supper at University Club Train 8:45 P.M. [[ink underline]] May 1. 1915 [[/ink underline]] Cold and gray [[red underline]] Paulus [[/red underline]] reports [[red underline]] 95% [[/red underline]] yield of formate from dry NaOH and confirms Waldenberger yield of 98% glyoxylic after introducing slight modification of Sutherland. These higher results of Paulus became possible since I advised him to keep his gas warm so as to keep it saturated with moisture, while he was cooling his gas to dry it. Went to Netherland's hotel then with [[red underline]] Jacobi [[/red underline]] to Claremont. After lunch drove him around till 6:30 P.M. I went alone to University Club then went to see [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] "The Bubble" May 2 (Sunday) Spent most of day selecting a curriculum from elective program for [[red underline]] George at Cornell, [[/red underline]] either for B.A. or for B.S. in College of Agriculture
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On page 70 of 99, the name "Bleulow" should be "Thurlow."