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Aprilo 4: [[underlined]] Senator smith Chairman [[/underlined]] of South Carolina writes me to send him notes and arguments in favor of his [[underlined]] $15000000 [[/underlined]] bill for [[underlined]] Government Nitrate [[/underlined]] plant. So spent most of day on this
April 5. Meeting of board of directors. This is a record month! [[underlined]] 173000 lbs [[/underlined]] delivered and $79000 order delivered. [[underlined]] Booked [[/underlined]] orders were about [[underlined]] $110000. [[/underlined]] - After the meeting where everybody seemed much pleased, I learned [[underlined]] Nikolas [[/underlined]] was at our office with [[underlined]] May [[/underlined]] After lunch at Morquin went to Brooklyn. [[underlined]] Paulus [[/underlined]] is expected back to morrow. Hydrochlorine need is now [[underlined]] 15%  in new outfit. [[?]] troubles with [[/underlined]] leaks in porcelan
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diaphragms, also trouble in getting [[underlined]] powdered [[?]]aurtie crushed in crusher. [[/underlined]] - [[strikethrough]] Bheed [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Oxalate Jurna[[?]] at a [[/underlined]] stand still Discussed with [[underlined]] Osterbout [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Sutherland [[/underlined]] conducting simple [[underlined]] osalate converter consisting of a flat steel table hented[[guess]] below on which formnte[[guess]] drops, [[/underlined]] and from which it is removed by a slnting scraper which [[strikethrough]] from, [[/strikethrogh]] throws it sidewise off plate where it is collected in a gutter so that it is easily [[strikethrough]] sut [[/strikethrough]] removed from heat jone. Suggested use of scraping piece of [[strikethrough]] rocks [[/strikethrough]] heavy snits fastened on link chain, traveling over the plate.
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Osterbout promises a sketch for to morrow. Supper at University Club Club with