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work. See [[strikethrough]] prog[[/strikethrough] printed program. Every evening after supper [[strikethrough]]luncheo [[/strikethrough]] we met again to discuss further the subjects presented in the morning.
[[left margin in red]] Gibson Island meetings [[/left margin in red]]
Am advised that [[red underline]] Dr. Redman [[/red underline]] whose name figured in our program as one of the speakers of the last day, [[red underline]] cannot come [[/red underline]]and has had another attack of convulsions and is now in Canada. - Am very sorry to hear this. The day I left for England he seemed well again and kept on repeating that he felt very well.
[[strikethrough]] This [[/strikethrough]]The different members of our conference are becoming well acquainted and make a very cheerful company. Some of them go playing golf during research. Others meet with their wives and children others go to the tap-room and talk chemistry or tell experiences of bygone days. [[strikethrough]] One of [[/strikethrough]]The [[red underline]] most interesting of them is Dr. Tom Midgeley [[/red underline]] who recounts experiences in his life.
Also our happenings in Dayton during the war. [[red underline]] So we retold how Prof. Grignard (recently deceased) [[/red underline]] who on his arrival in New York, sent by his French Government in 1917, with
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other scientists to consult with us about chemical war problems. [[red underline]](See my notes of 1917 etc) [[/red underline]] when active as members of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board. And [[red underline]] how contrary to my expectations Midgeley [[strikethrough]] sug[[/strikethrough]] succeeded in a remarkably short time to rig [[/red underline]] up a plant for the synthetic manufacture of [[strikethrough]] Hexanol[[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Cyclo-Hexane. [[/red underline]] When in 1917 [[red underline]] Grignard [[/red underline]] handed me the report of one of the scientists of the French Governement, in which it was stated that the [[red underline]] German Aviators had a much superior fuel [[/red underline]] for their Airplanes, and could rise higher and fly faster than the Allies on account of their use of [[red underline]] Cyclohexane, [[/red underline]] which had been found in one of the German Airplanes, which had been brought down the by Allies. They had analysed a sample of the liquid in the tank and had identified is as [[red underline]]Cyclohexane. Grignard [[/red underline]] on leaving the French Steamer that brought him to New York [[red underline]] immediately[[/red underline]] spoke to me of the urgency of the subject and handed me the official report about the subject telling me however that as this report was handed to him at the

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Thomas Midgley, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer and chemist.