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terly.  Afterwards meeting with [[red underline]] Beal and Smoots [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] to whom [[/strikethrough]] of the Bureau of Mines with whom discussed situation of [[red underline]] Cyclohexan [[/red underline]] manufacture and its [[red underline]] conversion in [[ethyls?]] and butadien[[/red underline]]
Left with midnight train. Unpleasantly cool in train.
Sept 22. (Sunday) [[red underline]] No motor cars in New York in accordance of request of war gasoline committee [[/red underline]] 
Stayed at University Club all day. [[red underline]] Fifth Avenue presents extraordinarily quiet appearance - Only promenaders, [[/red underline]] very few horse vehicles practically no motor cars except now and then an [[red underline]] omnibus or a physician's [[/red underline]] car. 
Sept 23. Busy all day here belated correspondence. Evening meeting of advisory
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committee on [[strikethrough]] catalog [[/red underline]] chemical catalog. -- A very respectable looking volume. A symptom of the growth of our chemical industry.  
Went to Chemical Exposition decidedly larger display than last year. Our booth seems to attract many visitors. [[/red underline]] I kept away from it.
Sept 24. Home all day [[strikethrough]] Laneg [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Davis' (the kayser's dentist) book on the Kayser and German conditions is one of the most interesting books of the war. [[/red underline]]
Sept 25. At 1 P.M at Delmonico's a simple lunch which [[strikethrough]] I had [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] had arranged as [[red underline]] chairman of Americanization Committee in [[/red underline]] Yonkers to discuss preparations with representatives of large employers in Yonkers. [[red underline]] Pupin there too, also Struthers manager Habinshaw Co. [[Goudwilly?]] of Otis, [[Kipp? Ripp?]] of Federal Sugar Refining [[/red underline]]

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butadien or butadiene is a synthetic rubber