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testimony this morning.  This [[red underline]] concludes our testimony. Frank L. Dyer [[/red underline]] and his nephew [[red underline]] Dyer Smith [[/red underline]] have behaved in a [[red underline]] very pleasant way during [[/red underline]] these proceedings.
Afternoon went to Brooklyn to discuss specifications with Paulus, for big [[red underline]] formate [[/red underline]] drum
Advised him to use still thicker steel plate on jacket and to provide extra steel bands as reinforcements on outside.
[[red underline]] Sutherland [[/red underline]] tells me he obtains 90% transformation of glyoxylic acid in his small laboratory cell [[red underline]] provided he stops after 5/6 [[/red underline]] of glyoxylic are transformed.  This will indicate as a new way for insuring bigger yields provided we find a practical method for reclaiming the untransformed glyoxylic acid or for saturating the
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liberated soda by means of glyoxylic acid.  Perhaps we might use a product in the anode compartment like glyoxal which on oxidizing would give glyoxylic acid.
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Charge 3 hours.- [[strikethrough]] There were [[/strikethrough]] We had an offer of [[red underline]] 275000 lbs of english Cresol at about 8c a lb. [[/red underline]] Rossi, Foersterling, myself and Mausolf all agreed to buy it so as to make sure of [[red underline]] our supply [[/red underline]] of raw materials [[red underline]] during this war which seems to have no end thus far. [[/red underline]] Went home with 5:17 P.M. train.
[[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] is at Lake George.

June 10. Beautiful bright day.  Got thru my belated correspondence.

June 11. All morning here.  Afternoon to office to discuss letter of warning to [[red underline]] Stevenson Brothers.  Westinghouse [[/red underline]] telegraph for [[red underline]] 80 Barrels varnish [[/red underline]] Evening to University Club for supper then to see a farce-lay called "Nobody Home"

June 12. [[red underline]] George got notified [[/red underline]] that