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Dubois informs me that Pittsfield. General Electric wrote to him for prices on paraform & Hexamethylen.
Swan says Condensite is making black pipe stems. [[red underline]] Our quick molding is not yet solved. - All this very depressing [[/red underline]]
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our expenses going on and our sales small.
July 18. Nice cool clear weather. Home all day. worked in lab trying to utilize Liquid A made with [[red underline]] 5% [[?]] [[/red underline]] instead of diluting with alcohol dilute with water. Made mixtures with asbestos, with woodpulp, made paint, impregnated etc. Seems very promising.
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Made black paint too. Everybody bustling in lab. [[red underline]] Rossi still troubled with cracks in pipe stems [[/red underline]] and Swan has not yet reached the desired quick molding mixtures.
Evening played phonograph. Lorenz [[margin]]Byck[[margin]] busy making mixtures for tomorrow Perth Amboy
July 19. Up early writing notes. Nice cool weather. George went to Perth Amboy with molding mixtures
[[red underline]] Better results with pipe stems [[/red underline]] also with buttons [[comma in red]] feel good. Evening supper with Nichols Whitney Hyatt and Bowman. [[red underline]] Hyatt [[/red underline]] says white mixture for [[red underline]] billaird [sic] balls [[/red underline]] is O.K. He bleaches the [[red underline]] ordinary B by exposing it to SO2 after swelling [[/red underline]] in alcohol. Home 11^[[19]]
July 20. Very busy day experimenting with [[red underline]] Lacquer [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] Alkali A. [[/red underline]]
Much bustling. Made more white
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