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try locating some material there. Evening Celine and I drove to the "Movies".

Nov. 19. Violent wind and rain. [[red underline]]Fuller tells me we are out of aniline black [[/red underline]] and cannot get any for our molding mixtures and varnish. So went to see Stone and Rowley of National Aniline Co. [[red underline]]They have none [[/red underline]] except about 200 lbs of another variety which I bought.
At 3 P.M went to meet [[red underline]] Geary [[/red underline]] He tells me confidentially that [[red underline]] France has put embargo on argols and that they have only enough at hand to last three months [[/red underline]] or six months if they stop selling tartaric acid. 
He says he is trying to lift embargo thru [[red underline]] Coudert [[/red underline]] Bros. who were the French Government lawyers. I told him under
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best conditions it [[red underline]] will take us 12 months to get ready [[/red underline]] if we [[strikethrough]] start [[/strikethrough]] decide to build a plant now. Then went to University Club for supper, later at meeting of Soc. Chem. Industry at Chemists Club

Nov 20. Busy morning at the 'phone. Spent considerable time with matters of Royal Baking Powder Co 
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Evening [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] and I are alone; Nina is away to Gedney Farms with a birth-day party of [[red underline]] Mrs. Rose[[/red underline]]

Nov. 21. 1915 (Sunday) At noon time [[red underline]] Miss [[De Schryver?]] [[/red underline]] tests my patience with her [[red underline]] foolish superficial talk about the war[[/red underline]] So I drove to University Club where I took supper.

Nov. 22. Hurried morning. 'Phoned to Rossi, May, and Paulus. [[red underline]] Paulus is starting his Brooklyn [[/red underline]] plant. Then to Pennsylvania Station 1:08 train [[red underline]] for Washington [[/red underline]]

Transcription Notes:
"argol" refers to a crude tartar.