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to New York for which charge one hour in addition to the 3 other hours.  [[strikethrough]] Y [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Ziegler, 
de Morest, Champ, Geary and Porter there [[/red underline]]  Explained how oxalic acid plant (9 tons) would cost [[red underline]] $500.000 [[/red underline]] of which $450.00 for NaOH. (7½ tons) plant and how this oxalic acid plant at 7c a lb. would give 
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annual profit of about $200.000 while a tartaric acid plant (3 tons) would require [[red underline]] $500.000 additional [[/red underline]] equipment [[red underline]] making $1000.000 [[/red underline]] in all and yet give only about the same return of oxalic acid plant
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if we could not reduce cost of manufacture of the latter 
Advised to equip a plant for one ton oxalic acid a day with all necessary equipment, including gas [[strikethrough]] ma [[/strikethrough]] producer; Paulus will submit estimate and this will ena-
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ble us to gain experience in this branch and to calculate exactly cost of production while we learn to increase yield of converter cell which still [[red underline]] remains at 64%. [[/red underline]]

May 5. Directors meeting of [[red underline]] General Bakelite Co. [[/red underline]]  Told to Gothelf who is again in Yonkers to try to make an A with ammonia from which to eliminate excess phenol by means of steam
Sales [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough] last month are [[red underline]] $40.000 [[/red underline]]  Williams, Peters, Mausolf, Creevey, and Foersterling present
[[red underline]] Charles Roth [[red underline]] came to see me to ask my cooperation for [[red underline]] chemical exposition [[/red underline]] here in New York in September.  he was with promoter of this exposition.  Told him I could not give my name but if their enterprise was seen on a high standard [[red underline]] would try to help and [[/red underline]]