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Feb 6. At 10:30 AM. Director's meeting of [[red underline]] General Bakelite [[/red underline]] Co. My first calculation of profits makes me believe that our taxes will be about [[red underline]] $100000. [[/red underline]]
Sales this month only [[red underline]] $81000 [[/red underline]]  Went to see Saunders to explain my apprehensions about [[red underline]]Sperry and his son [[/red underline]].[[strikethrough]] keeping [[/strikethrough]] being indiscret. Met [[red underline]] Saunders, Thayer and Robins of Naval Board [[/red underline]] at special meeting in private room of India House Club.  Then repeated my apprehension of [[red underline]] Sperry and his sons not being secret enough. They all agree. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] I urge Saunders to go [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Saunders [[/red underline]] reports further trouble about this Mrs. Brugiere x
[[vertical notation in left margin]] x divorced scheming woman [[/marginal notation]]
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[[red underline]] Cooper Hewitt [[/red underline]] and follows him everywhere and to whom [[red underline]] Cooper Hewitt [[/red underline]] seems to have divulged some of the most important devices now being studied by [[red underline]] Naval Consulting [[/red underline]] Board. Is [[red underline]] she a spy or [[/red underline]] is her intention to blackmail [[red underline]] Cooper Hewitt [[/red underline]], or the Board or the United States Government. As Admiral Smith writes [[red underline]] "She knows too much." [[/red underline]] Her presence in [[red underline]] Key West Fla [[/red underline]] is now signaled. She certainly can have no [[strikethrough]] good [[/strikethrough]] reasonable purpose of visiting [[red underline]] Key West [[/red underline]] beyond trying to get acquainted with the work of [[red underline]] Pupin [[/red underline]] I made up my mind to send a [[red underline]] telegram to Pupin [[/red underline]] warning him. He left yesterday and a letter may be too late. I sent the telegram by Western Union at about 4 PM