Spent the whole morning in 申新紗廠 and 申新麵粉廠, a giant industrial combine: factories in good condition. The flour mill was putting out very rapidly CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署] flour. Afternoon, visited O. S. Lieu’s 【劉鴻生] factories, wool and cement. Former suffered a probable 30%, latter 75% loss. O. S. said “After eight years, I return to Shanghai an aged man. It is only natural that my factories should have aged with me.” Talked with Hendrickson and Kizer about office space: about a ship to Chefoo 【煙臺] and about sales. I called their attention to the fact that only CNRRA Bureau of Finance had the right of sale, therefore of settling terms of sale. That was intended as a warning against Col. Hesketh, who had told me that he wished to see the mayor about sale of trucks. Conference with staff: target of 250,000 tons a month to be maintained: Shanghai to warehouse 350,000 tons of supplies. Evening, dinner with 范鶴言. 葉溯中 came to see me about the paper for textbooks, 30,000,000 elementary school children, each to have 5 textbooks a semester and 400 books to a ream and 45 reams to a ton would require 8,200 tons of news print plus 1,500 tons of cover papers, at a cost of less than G$2,000,000. This seems to me a good investment of UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] money.