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Matters certainly look rather unpleasant and will need my full care and attention. Saturday I shall confer with [[underline]] Swan [[/underline]] about situation in Bridgeport and on Monday have meeting of executive committee of [[underlined]] Protal [[/underline]] Co. On Tuesday I shall hand in my letters to Snell of ^Oil Paint & Drug Reporter. and on Wednesday I shall [[underline]] meet Hasslacher [[/underline]] and his attorney.
Aug 5. Finally got some cooler weather after night's rain. Spent most of morning preparing a hot answer to letter of [[underlined]] Knoll and Cie [[/underlined]] which will appear in Oil, Paint & Drug Reporter This finally gives me a good chance to answer the perfidious way in which [[underlined]] Lebach [[/underlined]] treated the subject in Zeitschrift für Organische Chemie
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Lewis made some solid A and spoiled his batch. Thurlow in Bridgeport. Peters seemed very dissatisfied the way Thurlow has bungled things up by sending report of paste molding to Rütgerswerke and then writing a rather stupid letter to Patterson. This cool weather gave me a days needed rest and [[underlined]] I begin to feel somewhat more hopeful as to future conditions of Bakelite. [[/underlined]] If Williams and Peters fall out I shall have Hasslacher and if I have to drop all of them I do not see why I could not enrol the help of others. even if I have to modify somewhat my conditions. 
Aug 6. Pleasant cool night slept well but got up early and reworked on my answer to [[underlined]] Knoll & Cie [[/underlined]] for Oil Paint and Drug reporter. - It's hot