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of light proof Bakelite.  [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] much better but is becoming impatient and wants to get home but quarantine forbids it.
May 3.  To NY to meeting of Board of [[red underline]] Directors [[/red underline]] of Gen. [[red underline]] Bakelite [[/red underline]] Co.  Hasslacher and Williams absent.  Sales are only [[red underline]] $50.000 [[/red underline]] because we lost over $13000 order for [[red underline]] Westinghouse [[/red underline]] Co. on account of their [[red underline]] strike. [[/red underline]]
Then went to Porter to explain him present situation  [[strikethrough]] Went [[/strikethrough]] He went for lunch with me to Fraunces Travern [[circle with cross above 5 hs. in left margin]]. Then I went to [[red underline]] Brooklyn [[/red underline]] where I stayed till near 6 P.M.  [[red underline]] Paulus [[/red underline]] got new open roaster for oxalate almost ready.  Waldenberger
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reports in [[red underline]] converter cell [[/red underline]] yields of [[red underline]] 72% [[/red underline]].  Went over some of the newer [[strikethrough]] plants [[/strikethrough]] plans for contemplated installation.  Evening annual meeting of [[red underline]] Chemists Club. Whitaker [[/red underline]] reelected as president.  Then [[strikethrough]] conce [[/strikethrough]] singing concert at University Club. Supper with Anthony Kortic and Devlin.  The latter drove with me to Yonkers in my car.
May 4.  Here all day dictating etc. Wrote first part article for Harper's Monthly.  Evening John [[red underline]] Bush [[/red underline]] came here [[red underline]] from California [[/red underline]] to talk about [[red underline]] nitrogen fixation [[/red underline]] and took supper with us.  [[strikethrough]] Told [[/strikethrough]] Retold the story of his troubles with [[red underline]] Elon H. Hooker etc. [[/red underline]]
May 5.
[[# 3 hs. in left margin]] Busy dictating all morning.  Afternoon dictated report on [[red underline]] Soy Bean for Elon H. Hooker [[red underline]]
Germany has sent rather