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future policy of [[red underline]] Gen Bakelite [[/red underline]] in regard to [[double red underline]] earnings, taxation [[/double red underline]] and surplus.
March 29. Left early for meeting of [[red underline]] Naval Board Committee on Ordnance and Explosives. [[/red underline]]
Ennery describes his methods for making big guns by hydraulic explosion, a more detailed development of Bridgman's scheme then Prof. Howe on Erosion. another came with new bullet then a new shell etc.  Had to leave at 1 P.M for meeting [[red underline]] Hooker, Dodge ([[?]]) [[/red underline]] his brother Albert and Mr. Horner a mining engineer for lunch to speak about projects of [[red underline]] further financing of Hooker Co. [[/red underline]] Told in presence of Hooker that I consider present policy of trying to
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policy which some day or another may wreck the company at the most unexpected moment. [[/red underline]]
Afterwards conference with Albert H. Hooker and Townsend.  The latter we found at the Crisco patent infringement trial  Stayed together until about 6 P.M
March 30 [[strikethrough]] Spent [[/strikethrough]]  Revision and rewriting of [[red underline]] Condensite [[/red underline]] agreement and laboratory conference evidence for [[red underline]] Redmanol suit. [[/red underline]]
March 31.  [[strikethrough]] Lab [[/strikethrough]] Rediscussing and rewriting [[red underline]] Condensite [[/red underline]] Contracts, then dictating memoranda for Brickenstein to use in [[red underline]] Redman [[/red underline]] suit, etc. [[notation in left margin]] B 4 hs [[/marginal notation]]
[[red underline]] War seems more and more imminent [[/red underline]] Monday new session of Congress opens and [[red underline]] everybody seems to expect that Wilson [[/red underline]] will declare that [[red underline]] Germany is [[/red underline]] already at war. Strenuous efforts of Mss. [[red underline]] Henry Villard, Jordan, Lachner [[/red underline]] and some other extreme pacifists and non resistants to prevent war and