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I feel [[red underline]] rather worried about the fact that Sperry travels alone and keeps his papers unguarded and talks rather freely of his invention, and expressed myself along this tendency to Major Carthy. Carthy [[/red underline]] says that he made same remarks to [[red underline]] Sperry [[/red underline]] and agrees entirely with [[red underline]] my views. Talbot [[/red underline]] took us to the large [[red underline]] Dayton Wright factory. [[/red underline]] Guarded by soldiers. [[red underline]] A busy place well planned. [[/red underline]] I rather regret to see they have no automatic sprinklers
Building is fireproof [[red underline]] but contents are not. [[/red underline]] Well planned shop and offices. They employ now [[red underline]] 5500 workmen and are only at the beginning. [[/red underline]] Pretty soon will employ considerably more [[red underline]] Schoonmaker chief [[/red underline]] engineer makes good impression so do all men
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and workmen I saw around there. [[red underline]] Saw one large 12 cylinder engine - airplane entirely packed [[/red underline]] with wings and fuselage, everything compactly folded in two big square boxes. [[red underline]] Ready to be loaded [[/red underline]] on car or steamer and ready to be speedily unpacked and only needed to [[strikethrough]] adap [[/strikethrough]] put [[red underline]] wings [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] on the body to have machine ready.
[[red underline]] Talbot tells me, main trouble is now to insure definite and positive instructions from Washington and this causes considerable delay. Was glad to see Bakelite insulation on timers of Liberty [[/red underline]] Motor.
Saw hard rubber sponge made of black hard rubber vulcanized with compressed N.
[[red underline]] Why not use Cyanamid or carbonate of ammonium? Why not use glue + hexa + a framing material or glue +
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