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of guns.  [[red underline]] I called their attention to fact that there is no use providing for big armaments if any enemy attacking U.S. can begin by paralyzing us by shutting of supply of nitrates from Chile by seizing nitrate district of Chile or shipping ports.  [[/red underline]]  Therefore we should install a plant in the U.S. for [[red underline]] making synthetic nitric acid.  [[/red underline]]  It would take [[red underline]] more than a year [[/red underline]] to have such a plant under operation.  Nobody has gone in this industry here because it does not  pay same investment in other lines of electrochemistry would be more profitable. But [[red underline]] Government ought to install one unit and train a staff of chemists and engineers and have everything [[/red underline]] ready to add new units as soon as conditions would demand it.  

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The cost of one unit would not be heavy and the products made from it could be used for government service or could be sold for agricultural purposes. [[red underline]] Maxim, Woodward, Hunt and Hutchinson all accepted my [[/red underline]] recommendation enthusiastically afterwards.  [[red underline]] Robins sent me a reporter to give him some information, and during afternoon several reporters came around for some [[purposes?]]. [[/red underline]]  Lunched at Chemist's Club with Grosvenor and Hendrik.  The latter is preparing himself to write popular articles on industrial chemistry.  Afternoon my meeting of Sub-com. [[red underline]] Food [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] Sanitation [[/red underline]] of which [[red underline]] I am chairman. [[/red underline]]  Explained to member my views of taking up study of so-called [[red underline]] vitamines [[/red underline]] according to suggestions of Bigelow

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