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"Our trade with Orient.", met Baskeville & Toch. Left before speakers were finished.  Came home with 11.40 with Jenssen whom I met in train.
[[margin]] March 30 [[/margin]] Everything beautifully white this morning. Trees & [[?]] all coated with snow.  Beautiful sight. Snow melted after a few hours so it did not interfere with our work. Thulow came back from [[underlined]] White Dental Mfg Co [[/underlined]] at Staten Island. Reports they are well equipped for Bakelite and has shown them how to work it and they will use it for switches etc. Thinks that Bakelite will not be a good substitute for rubber
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in dental plates.  In afternoon put Thulow to dry some [[underlined]] cement tiles and asbestos roofing so as to try to impregnate them with Bakelite. He [[/underlined]] carries out the experiments in laundry. Started tearing down old barn. Third story of new bdg begun.  
[[insertion]] Mch. 31 Second vist of Moore's brother who offers to start in with Bakelite without pay at start. See Mch. [[strikethrough]] 30 & [[/strikethrough]] 31 below [[/insertion]]
[[margin]] March 31 [[strikethrough]] March 31 [[/strikethrough]] April 1 [[/margin]] Thursday. Fine weather. Further tearing down of old building.  Afternoon visit of Dr Harold Van der Linde partner of Cohoe. Toronto. Canada explained him everything about Bakelite and also canadian situation. Told him cost price and possibility for Cohoe of [[strikethrough]] identify [[/strikethrough]] identifying himself with canadian exploitation either directly or indirectly.
[[margin]] March 31 [[/margin]] (continued from above.) Told him I was not sufficiently far advanced to take that step.