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enough to sit on Piazza.  Big white flowers of Magnolia trees give feeling of spring.

April 20.  Early to office.  [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] has a [[red underline]] suffrage meeting [[/red underline]] at "Snug Rock" 
The speaker is a F.R.G.S. native of U.S. has lived long in Congo
Discussed arbitration cause for our future contracts with [[red underline]] May and Mausolf. [[/red underline]] General Electric wants to [[red underline]] reserve 15 tons of Nͦ 2. [[/red underline]]  This puts us in a quandary because if we accept it we exhaust our remaining supply of phenol.- Went to Perth Amboy.  Everybody there [[red underline]] very busy except in transparent goods department, [[/red underline]] where orders are slack.  Gothelf has finally solved the problem of the buttons in the buttons.  But now it remains an open question whether these buttons of C20 will not show cracks after awhile.
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Therefore I suggest that we make some with the old Solid A O like in Eckner
I suggest to [[ink underline]] Hamlin [[/ink underline]] washing out our ordinary A with benzol or toluol or neutral oil, to remove last traces of phenol and thus make our ordinary material light-proof. [[red underline]] Hamlin brings out question of increased salary told him will take it up [[/red underline]] with Foersterlilng.  Home with 5:54 P.M.

[[ink underline]] April 21. [[/ink underline]]
Beautiful mild sunny weather
After lunch Celine and I motored  stopped at [[red underline]] Hasslacher. [[/red underline]] He was asleep but Mrs. H. was there then Celine accompanied me to Pennsylvania Station where I took train for [[red underline]] Atlantic City. [[/red underline]] Cohne (of N.Y.) on the train.  This is my first visit to [[red underline]] Atlantic [[/red underline]] City.  Hotel Chalfonte big hotel.
american plan looks like immense boarding house. Everything clean and orderly but uninteresting.  Tried to walk this endless boardwalk.- no end to it

Transcription Notes:
Dr. Baekeland may have meant to write "bubbles in the buttons" because that was a problem in a previous entry. "toluol" is a colorless, water-insoluble, flammable liquid obtained from coal tar.