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156 [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 3 hs. [[/symbol and annotation]] to heat and gave hydrochloric solution of 7% without any chlorine in it. Charge 3 hrs. Went to Hookers office. There listened for about one hours to [[red underline]] E. H. Hookers dreams of a ramified chemical industry which should dominate the whole field and should be run somewhat similarly like United State Steel Corporation. [[/red underline]] Tried to explain to him the [[red underline]] impracticability of such a dream [[/red underline]] then went with him for supper at Lafayette. In the taxicab explained to him my own dream of the [[red underline]] Soybean problem. [[/red underline]] How [[red underline]] Soybean in Manchuria [[/red underline]] is now used [[red underline]] mostly for oil [[/red underline]] while nitrogen residue is rejected and used as a fertilizer and how this [[end page]] [[start page]] 157 [[symbol in top left margin]] # [[/symbol]] [[second symbol, beneath the first, in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] in conjunction with Kaffir-corn, rich in starch grown on our arid lands would [[red underline]] make a universal food [[/red underline]] and become a rationial staple article of cheap food. I doubt whether [[strikethrough]] he is [[/strikethrough]] I succeeded in imbuing him [[red underline]] with the immensity of this [[/red underline]] project. [[symbol and annotation in left margin]] # 3 h. [[/symbol and annotation]] ^[[Went to see together Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound".]] [[strikethrough]] March. 31 [[/strikethrough]] [[black underline]] April 1. [[/black underline]] Mild Spring day. Went to Chemists Club for lunch then This morning spent 1 h. for Royal Baking Powder Co. Charge 1 h. [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 1 h. [[/symbol and annotation]] Evening met [[red underline]] Mali [[/red underline]] at University Club after supper. April 2. 1916 (Sunday). Quiet restful. reading. home all day. April 3. [[strikethrough]] Left [[/strikethrough]] Met [[red underline]] Frank Washburn [[/red underline]] at lunch in New York. He read me a very well written article about the [[red underline]] nitrogen situation [[/red underline]] up to date. Very interesting which I discussed with him. [[vertical annotation in left margin highlighted by a red line]] I mentioned to heat phenol with cyanamide for anilin! [[/vertical annotation in left margin]] Went to University Club for supper. [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]]
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"kaffir corn" is a now unused name for a Southern African variety of sorghum.