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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
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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.
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^[[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.  
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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]]

Transcription Notes:
"kaffir corn" is a now unused name for a Southern African variety of sorghum.