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satisfactorily. The transformation yesterday was only 74% but it is only a question of practice and regulation of temperature for obtaining highest yields. The output of one drum seems much larger than I expected and at this rate would deliver about a [[underlined]] tone of oxalate in 24 hours. [[/underlined]] All attention now concentrated on this while new shaft is being put in fonnate drum and while decomposition plant is being put in complete order. [[underlined]] Dr. Peter [[/underlined]] busy in studying production of [[underlined]] lactide [[/underlined]] and its possible uses for baking powder in conjunction with bicarbonate.
[[underlined]] May [[/underlined]] had asked me to meet him at his [[underlined]] Delta Kappa Epsilon Club in 44 street [[/underlined]] He tell me a customer reports to him that [[underlined]] Kirk Brown [[/underlined]] is trying to [[strikethrough]] decide he [[/strikethrough]] swing an
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order for [[underlined]] conderinte [[/underlined]] out of him, threatened him that if he supplied to [[underlined]] Bakelite Co, [[/underlined]] he risked in not having his orders filled, and [[underlined]] told him we are on the black list [[/underlined]] - This gives additional probability [[underlined]] that slick foxy, scheming Kirk Brown is the "Nigger in the Wood Pile" who has managed to induce the british Government to forbid exportation of Cresol to us. May [[/underlined]] wants to visit immediately all our customers so as to tranquilize them. - I fear this might on the contrary stirr up unnecessary uneasiness. Told him to wait for a few days until I could give him definite advice. [[underlined]] May like usually is rather nervous, this is his great drawback - emphasizing too much on single point of view. [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] On the other hand he is [[/strikethrough]] He fears Brown may swoop up many year contracts if we are not in a hurry. and close  

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Instructions say to use the word 'underlined' in brackets when words are underlined in text. Seems appropriate because indicates past tense.