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invited [[red underline]] Landis of Cyanamide Co, Atwater [[/red underline]] of Barret Mfg Co. [[red underline]] Cottrell and Clements [[/red underline]] so as to hear them all and discuss side of [[red underline]] bye-product coke ovens [[/red underline]] as well as that of [[red underline]] Cyanamid [[/red underline]] people.  We were there at 9:00 AM and [[red underline]] Marming and Parsons [[/red underline]] were there too and we spent all morning on the subject.  I finally advising Bureau of Mines to institute research and experiments to determine rapid methods for purification of [[strikethrough gas gas [[/strikethrough]] tar liquor [[red underline]] ammonia [[/red underline]] so that it may be converted [[/red underline]] easily in [[red underline]] nitric acid [[/red underline]] in case of war and to instal at least one
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unit for this purpose and to obtain cooperation from steel companies or bye-product coke-oven companies for this purpose. and to cooperate with Department of agriculture in order to determine whether processes of oxidation of ammonia by [[strikethrough]] fermen [[/strikethrough]] bacterial processes are practical or not.
Then hurried lunch at Willard then meeting of [[red underline]] American Electrochemical Society [[/red underline]] special discussion on [[red underline]] water-power famine [[/red underline]] and more particularly Niagara Falls 
[[red underline]] See Transactions. [[/red underline]] Took supper at Cosmos Club with [[red underline]] Parsons, Lidbury, Landis [[/red underline]] 
Late on [[red underline]] Cushman [[/red underline]] joined me and became confidential complaining that American