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164 June 26 for [[red underline]] Redmanol - Insulate Co [[/red underline]] suit This afternoon Professor [[red underline]] Pigman [[/red underline]], acting dean of engineering faculty of [[red underline]] Columbia University [[/red underline]] here to talk over situation of [[red underline]] Chemical Engineering Department. I told him I consider program of lectures absurdly heavy. [[/red underline]] Evening. Mr. [[red underline]] Potger [[/red underline]] and wife here. [[red underline]] has not yet succeeded [[/red underline]] in finding a position since he arrived from Belgium. [[red underline]] [[red underline]] These artists [[/red underline]] are nearly all alike on account of their [[red underline]] childish ignorance of the most elementary things. [[/red underline]] June 27. Went to Guarantee Loan and Trust Co to pay in cash [[red underline]] $17400 [[/red underline]] additional to $600 already paid so as to pay in full for my allotment of [[red underline]] $18000 Liberty Loan bonds. [[/red underline]] I had subscribed for [[red underline]] $30000 [[/red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 165 but as issue was oversubscribed was alloted only 60% of my subscription. Then [[strikethrough]] went [[/strikethrough]] drove to [[red underline]] Perth Amboy with Celine. [[/red underline]] New building is up to about 2d story. Everybody busy. Fuller tells me [[red underline]] wet ^[[molding]] mixtures are [[/red underline]] exactly alike the [[red underline]] dry molding mixtures [[/red underline]] and he is ready to start regular commercial manufacture thereof. [[red underline]] Laurence and Shannon [[/red underline]] report that there method of reclaiming [[red underline]] formaldehyde and alcohol is now worked out and ready for use. [[/red underline]] All this good news. To night left for [[red underline]] Washington [[/red underline]]. June 28. At 2 P.M. meeting of committee of [[red underline]] Chemistry of National Research Council; Bogert [[/red underline]] presiding. Chairman of sub committees all present also A.A. [[red underline]] Noyes, Whitney, Alsberg [[/red underline]] and myself. Prof. [[red underline]] Guignard [[/red underline]] of french scientific commission there to ask questions and furnish information. He