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him about pending problems and the younger men of our organization being rather liberal in spending and general expenses. 
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This evening [[black and red underline]] Kettering [[/black and red underline]] and [[red underline]] Fairchild here till 11 P.M. [[/red underline]] while the ladies were playing cards at Fairchilds. Had a great talk. [[red underline]] Kettering [[/red underline]] told about further [[red underline]] developments of the self directing airplane [[/red underline]] for directing bomb charges [[strikethrough]] without [[/strikethrough]] precisely at distances of 100 miles and more as first conceived by [[red underline]] Cooper Hewitt and Elmer Sperry of the ^[[U.S]] Naval Consulting board. [[/red underline]] an invention which the at the time caused me so much apprehension that the Germans might get hold of it and thus [[red underline]] subdue Paris and London without the risk of a single man. [[/red underline]] The whole thing being [[red underline]] automatic. [[/red underline]] We calculated at the time that mass production of these
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[[left margin in red]] Automatic [[strikethrough]] lon [[/strikethrough]] bombing planes [[/left margin]]
planes would cost only [[red underline]] $1200 [[/red underline]] each including 300 lb. charges. [[red underline]] Kettering [[/red underline]] told us they had been able to simplify so as to bring cost down considerably. He spoke of $300 not including the charge of explosives or poison gas and explained many other details for the automatic directing part, also safety devices so as to make the machine harmless in case it failed to reach its destination. - Also spoke about [[red underline]] present research [[/red underline]] work directed to [[red underline]] photosynthesis and chlorophyl. [[/red underline]] Retold us how they came to [[strikethrough]] tetreathy [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] tetra-ethyl lead [[/red underline]] for anti knock gasoline etc etc. A [[bold red underline]] wonderful evening [[/bold red underline]] While he was here [[strikethrough]] Hofs H [[/strikethrough]] sipping my ale, [[red underline]] Hofmann Nickerson [[/red underline]] came in with another member of the Cruising Club of America