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with [[red underline]] Pupin, Bridges [[/red underline]] and several others then awaited election news. [[red underline]] Tammany [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] seems[[/strikethrough]] ^[[is]] [[red underline]]  victorious [[/red underline]] everywhere and has succeeded not only in [[red underline]] defeating woman suffrage [[/red underline]] but defeating with a still greater plurality the [[red underline]] new constitution. [[/red underline]]  Home with 10:45 P.M.

Nov. 3. To meeting of Directors of [[red underline]] Bakelite Co. [[/red underline]] all present including [[red underline]] Hasslacher. [[/red underline]] Deliveries for past month are [[red underline]] $63000, a new record. [[/red underline]] [[black underline]] Booked [[/black underline]] orders were [[red underline]] $82000. [[/red underline]] Proposed credit of [[red underline]] $10000 [[/red underline]] for erecting a plant permitting us to make our own [[red underline]] synthetic phenol [[/red underline]] during war time
Unanimously accepted. Everybody friendly and pleased as usually. Then went to Hooker Company where conference [[strikethrough]] was[[/strikethrough]] to decide our proposed enlarge-
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ment. I warned them against counting their chickens before being hatched and [[red underline]] not to borrow money on short terms [[/red underline]] but better to issue some stock or [[red underline]] issue bonds. [[/red underline]] Had to leave for about one hour to meet [[red underline]] Dr. Ney and Rossi [[/red underline]] as first consultation in relation to phenol plant. [[red underline]] Ney [[/red underline]] estimates for a [[red underline]] 1000 lbs. [[/red underline]] daily production will need [[red underline]] $8000 plant. [[/red underline]] Left them to rejoin the Hookers, all afternoon till 7 P.M. Elon Hooker had one of his bad headaches and this made progress and deliberations slower than usually except that [[red underline]] I kept prodding them into action. [[red underline]]  At 7 P.M [[red underline]] I got impatient [[/red underline]] and left while they were [[red underline]] still leisurely [[/red underline]]  debating and talking it over. 
These [[red underline]] Hooker meetings are very trying to my patience altho' none of the Hookers, nor Lyster, nor Townsend seems to mind murdering time. [[red underline]] [[double red underline]] I have [[/double red underline]] 

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The word "enlargement" is the split word spanning the bottom of page one and the top of page two. I was uncertain how to transcribe it, so I just transcribed it as written.