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120 [[red underline]] Ammonia synthetic process [[/red underline]] is now ready to be applied on a commercial scaleͯ and has made an offer to Nitrate supply Committee. [[annotation in left margin]] ͯlater events proved this was not correct [[/annotation]] Evening went to Washington Section of [[red underline]] Am. Chem. [[/red underline]] Society Dr. Hudson presiding and [[red underline]] was asked at the end of the [[/red underline]] meeting to [[strikethrough]] address them [[/strikethrough]] say something. May 11. This was a busy day at an all day conference of [[red underline]] Nitrate supply Committee, General Crozier presiding. Rear Admiral Earle and two [[/red underline]] other officers present besides representatives of the Bureau of Mines - [[red underline]] (Parsons). [[/red underline]] Department Agriculture [[red underline]] (Brown) [[/red underline]] and A. A. [[red underline]] Noyes, Whitney, [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] Hillebrandt [[/red underline]] (Bureau of Standards) [[red underline]] Herty [[/red underline]] and myself. [[end page]] [[start page]] 121 [[red underline]] Parsons [[/red underline]] advocates adoption of synthetic ammonia process of direct union of nitrogen and hydrogen [[red underline]] as developed by General Chemical Co also subsidy of $200,000 for further study of cyanide process of Bricker [[/red underline]] [[two red exclamation points in left margin]] He advocates it so strenuously and furthermore [[red underline]] seems so systematically to eliminate the Cyanamide process [[/red underline]] that he puts us on our mettle. Therefore the recommendations we agreed upon are such as to [[strikethrough]] safeguard the interes [[/strikethrough]] prevent [[red underline]] that he should put one over us. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] I begin to susp [[/strikethrough]] We got thru at about 6 P.M May 12. Another busy day. This time [[black and red underline]] with Naval Consulting Board. [[/black and red underline]] Report and photographs of recent experiments conducted by [[red underline]] Stevens brothers [[/red underline]] before members of our Board for the [[red underline]] destruction of submarines and several [[/red underline]]