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fat, pale Dr. Oscar Blank I met at Crystal Palace on Banquet of Congress.  Had short talk then drove him to Adlon where I showed him my samples.  Signified his willingness to join syndicate.  While he was there came in [[underlined]] Mr. Hecht [[/underlined]] in my room with Director Zabel of Lanz & Co. the big Machine manufacturers of Mannheim who made impress to me of on of those big ponderous german financial men but little technical ability - Thought could use [[underlined]] Bakelite [[/underlined]] for his [[underlined]] Luftschiff [[/underlined]] they were building now!  Absurd!  At 2 P.M my little room
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is again filled by [[underlined]] the Siemens & Halske people [[/underlined]]. Theusgenium & Procurest [[underlined]] Fessel [[/underlined]] Dr. Jaeger physicist and experimenter [[underlined]] Nürnberger [[/underlined]] head of rubber department showed my samples.  all very interested, explained everything and gave copies of my papers.  Took lunch at 4:30 PM and felt rather tired.  Took nap. awoke at 9 PM and went for supper to Tucherbräu  Some showers.  Then went to Casino and finally to bed.
[[margin]] June 20 [[/margin]] (Sunday)  Wrote letters and corrected text for european patents until 3 P.M. Drove auto cab to [[underlined]] Lubrechs [[/underlined]] met the boys home.  The younger studies chemistry has just taken out patent for a new chemical paint  Mr. Lubrech in Italy, thence