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88 to be the real thing for molding and seems better than B. It is not so long ago that I had to lose patience when Thurlow was postponing trying this solid A I always felt that solid A made with ammonia or some other base was the easiest solution of the molding problem. May 6. Our ball mill is back and Thurlow went away yesterday [[underlined in red]] to purchase a second hand hydraulic press. [[/underlined]] This will soon enable one to do some molding experiments [[underlined in red]] here. [[/underlined]] and to make some progress. [[end page]] [[start page]] 89 I spent afternoon in lab. trying to coat some metallic pieces with Bakelite for General Electric Co. May 7. Spent all morning examining and writing letters for D. & F. Co wrote also to Higgins in Australia to offer him the [[1/2 X in margin]] process (charge 1/2 day0 [[underlined in red]] I feel very impatient at the slow way things are going along with Bakelite. Thurlow takes his time and [[strikethrough]] ordinarily [[/strikethrough]] never comes around before noon and leaves here at about 5 PM. [[/underlined]] This has been his habits ever since I started him on Bakelite even then much time is needlessly lost. [[underlined in red]] I intend to engage an assistant who will carry out [[/underlined]] [[end page]]