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process.  I wonder why he does not limit himself to make [[red underline]] Cyanide [[/red underline]], if his process is cheap enough for ammonia it ought to be [[red underline]] much better [[/red underline]] for the expensive cyanide of which there is a great shortage at present, but he [[red underline]] dodges my question by stating that others are studying this question on a commercial scale and [[/red underline]] that he is not in a condition to give information.  But why then should he court such a [[red underline]] publicity? [[/red underline]] Went with him and Baskerville for supper at Engineers Club. The man [[red underline]] seems rather unprepared [[/red underline]] and seems to have an almost [[red underline]] child like attitude towards [[practical?]] problems. [[/red underline]] Regular type of theoretical professor who spends his
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life in his laboratory or which beginning students.
March 3. Early to New York  At 9 A.M special meeting of subcommittee of [[red underline]] Naval Consulting Board at which [[/red underline]] many prominent engineers and professors have been invited to discuss means [[red underline]] for defense [[/red underline]] and attack [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] against [[red underline]] Submarines and Torpedoes.  Addicks presiding.  Rear Admiral Simms Chief of War College [[/red underline]] and several other Naval officers there. Meeting held at United Engineering Societies building Sims and other Naval officers first explained submarine and torpedoes and their methods of attack, limitations and possibilities.  [[red underline]] Milliken and Michelson of Chicago [[/red underline]] there, also Elihu [[red underline]] Thompson [[/red underline]] and other distin-