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waiting at factory. Evans is at office and May in Chicago with the [[red underline]] Bed Stead mfrs. [[/red underline]]
Wickes lunched with me and brings [[red underline]] new records [[/red underline]] which show he is [[red underline]] not so far advanced as Rossi. [[/red underline]]
Troubled with pits and depressions due to hand mixing of stearine and color. He is using small [[porcelain?]] ballmill and only grinds four hours which Rossi says is insufficient. He also cools down while Rossi takes off his records hot at 75 degrees [[symbol]] C which avoids undue
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shrinkage and allows easier detachment of matrix. Rossi says his records now simply drop off. no trouble removing them. Wickes agrees with Rossi that new Solid A No. 3 made with [[underline]] steamed [[/underline]] Novolak is far superior to anything we had heretofore
After Wickes is gone a certain Mr. [[Nitrowski?]] came to talk about [[red underline]] Bakelite dolls [[/red underline]] he has succeeded in making. Coming home at 6 [[superscript, underlined]] 15 [[/superscript, underlined]] PM I find that [[red underline]] Lewis [[/red underline]] this morning [[red underline]] smashed my new car [[/red underline]] by skidding into a tree. The car looks a fearful
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