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May 16. Busy all morning dictating letters. Afternoon visit of Mr. Louderbach of Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Pittsburgh came to inquire for Bakelite. Asbestos molding. showed him samples. Says wants Bakelite Asbestos paper. Afternoon went to meet Harriman ^[[at Greystone station]] with May to inquire about purchase of plot of ground at Greystone for Bakelite factory.
May. 17. Went to Paint Drug & Oil reporters relative to "land". then went to City College to hear Toch's lecture on cement. Then drove to Claremont then met Hasslacher, Dubois. [[Forsterberg?]] and a certain Mr. Schneider of Frankfurt at dinner. Spoke Bakelite 
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business and about my intention to form a company. They seem eagerly willing to form did not formulate exact conditions. Say will do so after their return from the West when I shall have consulted Peters Williams and McLargo. Drove home with Hasslacher at about 10 [[underlined]] 30 [[/underlined]] P.M. feel very tired May 18. Old Lufbery here with a certan Mr. Myron Hutchinson a retired rubber manufacturer of Mannheim Drove them to New York. George ran against a curb stone and shifting bolt of foot brake dented the spokes May 19. At 3 P.M meeting of Chemists Club building Co. at Nichols office. Loeb, [[Plaret?]] Chandler & Nichols Jr. then Read in the papers of all comet gazing in New York