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of untrained workmen.
[[red underline]] Peter and Stokes [[/red underline]] still busy with problem of lactid.  They know try to find easy way for making strong lactic acid and seem on promising road.
Evening met [[red underline]] Commander Miller
^[[Cyrus R. Miller [[strikethrough]] Dryce [[/strikethrough]] [[/red underline]] ^[[U.S.N.]] at University Club he tells me I should [[red underline]] send George to him so that [[/red underline]] he may be able to advise him what kind of service to take.
June 7.  Here all day preparing my addresses.  Evening went to Chemists Club as guest of [[red underline]] Whitaker Secretary Goetze [[/red underline]] of Columbia and [[red underline]] Dean Pegram [[/red underline]] present.  We discuss program for reorganization of [[red underline]] Chemical Engineering Dept of Columbia University. [[/red underline]] They all three state explicitly that [[double red underline]] I shall have full power and if anybody under me does not suit he will be [[/double red underline
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June 8.  Busy here all morning.  Took 1:08 P.M. train for [[red underline]] Washington. [[/red underline]] Evening general meeting of [[red underline]] Naval Consulting Board at the [[/red underline]] Willard Hotel.
When I took the train at Pennsylvania Station found [[red underline]] Elmer A. Sperry [[/red underline]] waiting to tell me he could not join us because he had to stay in New York for some important experiments to be carried out with officers of the Navy in relation to Submarine destruction and aerial torpedoes.
[[red underline]] Seems very confident he has something revolutionary in this line. [[/red underline]]
[[vertical annotation in left margin]] Manless [[black underline]] autosteering [[/black underline]] air plane carrying bomb charges [[/vertical annotation]]
At Cosmos Club met Arthur [[red underline]] Bulland [[/red underline]] who tells me he is leaving for [[red underline]] Russia. [[/red underline]] 
[[red underline]] Washington [[/red underline]] is very crowded all hotels and offices full, new arrivals every day.  New office [[red underline]] buildings being erected everywhere [[/red underline]]

Transcription Notes:
Elmer Ambrose Sperry was inventor of gyrocompass and stabilizers used by US Navy in both WWI and WWII. According to Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume LX, Number 108, 27 February 1917: "Following the resignation of Frederick A. Goetze, M.Sc., as Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science last week, President Butler appointed to the position of Acting Dean of that Faculty, Professor G. B. Pegram of the Department of Physics."