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122 [[red underline]] again $100,000. [[/red underline]] This time in Perth Amboy there being I believe one of the very largest subscribers there. Nov 1, 1917. Busy here all day. Spent evening with Celine to see Photodrama = Cleopatra then left for Washington. [[red underline]] Further disheartening news from Italy. Germans still advancing, [[/red underline]] large numbers of prisoners taken, over 100,000. Nov 2. Went to see [[red underline]] Manning [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] to discuss [[/strikethrough]] He [[red underline]] prefers not to start committee on standardisation of fuel for airplanes. [[/red underline]] Suggests Navy should take it up. I suggest [[red underline]] Durant [[/red underline]] of Advisory Board on [[red underline]] Aeronautics [[/red underline]] should take it up. Went to [[red underline]] Durant. [[/red underline]] He [[end page]] [[start page]] 123 seems very ready to take up the matter. Told him that in any case I [[strikethrough]] cannot be member [[/strikethrough]] desire not to be member of the new committee. See my letters to him and [[red underline]] Manning. [[/red underline]] Afterwards went to [[red underline]] Bogerts meeting of chemical committee [[/red underline]] and told him of result of my committee on fuels for airplanes in [[red underline]] presence of the others [[/red underline]] there assembled. In the afternoon [[red underline]] Bogert [[/red underline]] immediately told this news to chairmen of ^[[sub]]committees on chemistry [[red underline]] without mentioning that I had done the work and obtained the information. [[/red underline]] I met [[red underline]] Parsons and A. A. Noyes [[/red underline]] at Cosmos Club. I told to [[red underline]] Parsons about Ammonium nitrate situation. [[/red underline]] Immediately he tells