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at Park Theatre
Nov 30. No news from [[red underline]] George's [[/red underline]] ship. Evening went to Century Club to hear Dr. Finley's account of his experiences in Palestine.
Dec 1 (Sunday) [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] here in uniform. She [[red underline]] with Celine Tim and myself took [[/red underline]] all lunch together at [[red underline]] Gotham hotel George's [[/red underline]] ship not yet sighted. Mauritania expected to morrow. 
Dec 2. Mauretania here but no news from [[red underline]] George's [[/red underline]] ship [[strike-through]] Went [[/strike-through]] Spent morning with Beann of [[red underline]] Westinghouse Co. [[/red underline]] in relation to present composite card. board situation. Told him one more the story of our patent situation. He suggested we should give [[red underline]] Formica a license for gears [[/red underline]] provided they buy the bakelite
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from us. Told him this would not be possible unless they bought [[black underline]] all [[/black underline]] from us [[red underline]] for gears [[/red underline]] and for cardboard too and none from others. That in fact this was what they asked to do and that present situation and present competition had only arisen because we wanted to protect [[red underline]] Westinghouse [[/red underline]] and therefore had refused to sell bakelite to [[red underline]] O'Connor [[/red underline]] if he was to use it for composite cardboard. That furthermore [[red underline]] Formica[[/red underline]] seemed to be owned by [[red underline]] Redmanol [[/red underline]] and that even if we decided to do so we could not, in accordance with our agreement with [[red underline]] Condensite,[[/red underline]] allow them the manufacture ^[[resin or varnish]] [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] raw material. That furthermore, even if we conformed with with Redmanol we would