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50 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] [[second symbol in top left margin to the right of the first]] # [[/second symbol]] one shall be able to equip an efficient purifying system for the gas. [[strikethrough]] [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] Charge 4 hs. [[/symbol and annotation]] Then drove [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Arrived]] home [[strikethrough]] in time [[/strikethrough]] before 5 P.M. December 9. Busy morning dictating. Spent [[strikethrough]] over one [[/strikethrough]] ^[[about 2]] hours with Hooker matters over phone and letters etc. Charge 1 h. [[symbol and annotation in left margin]] # 2 h [[/symbol and annotation]] After lunch tried new Hudson car. It works delightfully well. [[strikethrough]] Dec. 9 Here all day. Spent much of morning with Hooker matters, telephone, dictating etc. [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Dr. Ney [[/red underline]] called up asking whether we would pay him $250 on account [[/red underline]] Told May to send him check.ͯ [[vertical annotation in right margin]] ͯHe is to teach us synthetic phenol [[/vertical annotation]] Dec. 10. Here all day till evening. Then drove to New York alone in new Hudson Sedan. At Chemists Club [[red underline]] Dr. Wagner [[/red underline]] had arranged private room for special dinner at which where [[strikethrough]] Dr. [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] McLaurin [[/red underline]] President Massachusetts Institute [[end page]] [[start page]] 51 Technology. [[red underline]] Little, ^[[Talbot,]] Walker, Whitney etc. [[/red underline]] Then afterwards to lecture room Joint meeting of NY. Section Am. Chemical Society and Am. Electrochemical Society. Subject [[red underline]] University and Industry. [[/red underline]] First spoke [[red underline]] McLaurin, [[/red underline]] then Talbot, then Walker then [[red underline]] Little, [[/red underline]] then myself my subject being different: [[red underline]] "The U.S. Naval Consulting Board." [[/red underline]] It took about 30 minutes to deliver my address. I was two or three times interrupted by applause, see published address. Afterwards I went to social room of Club, there met [[red underline]] Voigt and Toch, [[/red underline]] invited them to ride with me home. But my new car refused to start. Had been four hours in the old and oil in cylinders had thickened. Got a chauffeur of a near by taxi cab to try