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Afterwards went with [[underlined in red]] Nina [[/underlined in red]] to the Pages where she boards Mr. Page, Mrs. Page and Miss Page (William Nelson Page) all very friendly and people of education. [[underlined in red]] She is very lucky to have struck such [[/underlined in red]] a home.
At Cosmos Club Brickenstein tells me [[underlined in red]] Townsend and George both had influenza in England. [[/underlined in red]] This explains why [[underlined in red]] George was still there. [[/underlined in red]] A telegram from Celine that [[underlined in red]] Katie is dead. [[/underlined in red]] Colin White of the Bureau of Ordinance and in charge of [[strikethrough]] Nitrate [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] synthetic nitrate plant tells me ammonia synthesis [[/underlined in red]] according to process of General Chemical Co [[underlined in red]] has been in [[/underlined in red]] operation [[underlined in red]] in small unit [[/underlined in red]] for several weeks but results [[underlined in red]] are far from being satisfactory [[/underlined in red]]
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[[underlined in red]] New plants have been abandoned [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] Cyanamide [[/strikethrough]] and it is still doubtful [[underlined in red]] whether better results will warrant construction [[/underlined in red]] of plant. After all they had to rely on [[underlined in red]] Cyanamide process. [[/underlined in red]] He says endorsements of [[underlined in red]] Charlie Parsons [[/underlined in red]] were [[underlined in red]] mis-leading [[/underlined in red]] and not substantiated by facts. - [[underlined in red]] This is exactly the position I took when I foresaw possibility of being left in the lurch while defending exclusively on a new process not [[/underlined in red]] yet tried on a wholesale scale and subsequent events [[underlined in red]] have justified my action in [[/underlined in red]] urging [[underlined in red]] and bringing about [[/underlined in red]] the supplementary erection of [[underlined in red]] cyanamide plants. [[/underlined in red]] I have had long ago [[underlined in red]] my suspicions [[/underlined in red]] about the [[underlined in red]] reliability of the statement [[underlined in red]] and judgement [[/underlined in red]] of [[underlined in red]] Charles Parsons. [[/underlined in red]]