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104 [[symbol in upper left margin]] circle with cross on top [[/symbols in margin]] Went to [[red underline]] Royal Baking Powder [[/red underline]] laboratory. Paulus is smiling, has made some [[red underline]] successful runs of formate and his oxalate roaster [[/red underline]] too works well. [[symbol in left margin showing circle with cross on top with annotation "3 hs"]] Saw quite some oxalic acid. He thinks [[red underline]] within one week oxalic acid manufacture will be regular [[/red underline]] and without intermittence. Discussion with Peters and the [[strikethrough]] other chemist [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Stokes]] about their lactide work. Was back in time this evening to sign letters. April 24. Yesterday learned large vacuum pump gives 2 m.m. can be obtained in one month pumping 114 cubic feet per minute so telephoned to [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] and told him to get me to push his experiments with wet mixture. To day [[end page]] [[start page]] 105 I find that thanks to my urging he has purchased one which has 200 cubic feet capacity and can be delivered immediately for $2000.00 Called up [[red underline]] Mastick [[/red underline]] and then [[red underline]] Alexander Smith [[/red underline]] urging them to keep quiet and not irritate [[red underline]] Herty [[/red underline]] by any further foolish statements that he is [[red underline]] "going to eat his words." [[/red underline]] This evening after supper [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] went out to one of her Prospect House meetings and I was [[red underline]] all alone wandering around the house examining old photographs of Celine [[/red underline]] and myself and then the children when they were little tots. [[red underline]] How far away all this seems. [[/red underline]] The photos look as if they had been delivered yesterday and yet so much has changed and what will happen next. [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] is drilling and marching
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Seabury C. Mastick was a lawyer specializing in chemical patents.