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80 joined us for supper. Oct 16. Beautiful day. More conference with [[underscore red]] Townsend [[/underscore red]] and [[underscore red]] Jones [[/underscore red]] Both here till 2 P.M then drove them to station. I noticed first that [[underscore red]] stick of transparent C [[/underscore red]] made from [[vertical red line in margin next to two sentences beginning with "transparent" and ending with "bakelizer"]] [[underscore red]] hexatriphenol in bakelizer [[/underscore red]] to which has been added as solid solvent aniline or benzoylbenzoate have [[underscore red]] changed very little after two months in sun. [[/underscore]] [[strikeout]] very [[/underscore]] Much encouraged and ask Gotthelf to compare with others. This is a decided gain even over our samples cleaned by boiling in hexa solution. Told Gotthelf to immediately investigate further and repeat experiments using even more hexa or add [underscore red]] bioxymethylene [[/underscore red]] After these few strenuous days during which I have not slept [[end page]] [[start page]] 81 well, [[underscore red]] begin to feel rather tired [[/underscore red]] and glad to have some rest Oct 17. Big part of morning spent with [[underscore red]] Gotthelf [[/underscore red]]discussing results of latest developments of [[underscore red]] transparent[[/underscore]] material and outlining work for future Told him to try [[vertical red line in margin]] bioxymethylen more hexa. Methylen chloride. also got some good orders at [[/vertical red line in margin]] office. [[underscore red]] Orders [[underscore red]] have been disquietingly [[underscore red]] small for quite some time. [[/underscore red]] Oct 18. Busy all morning at 2 P.M Motored to Takamine's office Met there [[strikeout]] Dr.[[/strikeout]] Mr. Kajero Kondo of Soichiro Asano (Tokio) who inquired about processes for fixation of nitrogen [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] in the air. [[underscore red]] Takamine [[/underscore red]] makes proposition from the [[underscore red]] Japanese [[/underscore red]] chemical co of which he is president to give us 1/3 of profits made of Bakelite. Told him it would be better (end page)
