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[[red underlined]] May slept aboard the Ion [[/red underlined]]
May 28. [[red underlined]] Leslie Ray [[/red underlined]] arrived and I put him to work cleaning up things. I went only at noon, lunched at home then drove to [[red underlined]] Cornell Medical College where together with May met Dr. Benedict. [[/red underlined]] The latter [[red underlined]] showed me some [[/red underlined]] of his samples, all poured objects, [[red underlined]] made in plaster or bechen [[/red underline]] Look yellowish white, some of them entirely white. They are opaque and I am made the impression [[red underlined]] that they contain water [[/red underlined]] or similar material as a solid emulsion. Material is not so hard nor so strong as bakelite. It [[red underlined]] does not electrize. Dr. Benedict wants $10000 [[/red underlined]] for the options. I told him this
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is a fine gamble on our part, before we have studied the properties of the substance, or the [[red underlined]] patentability. He seems to know very little of the practical situation and imagines that transparent bakelite is the typical product [[/red underlined]] we manufacture [[strikethrough]] Fomica [[/strikethrough]] Told him I would send him copies of all patents issued on condition products provided he will return them to me. He is [[red underlined]] leaving to morrow on a motor trip. [[/red underlined]] and will be back by [[red underlined]] June 16 [[/red underlined]] Went to University Club for supper then home about 10 P.M.
[[red underlined]] Dr. Benedict also showed [[/red underlined]] me another piece of material which I recognized immediately as the [[red underlined]] resorcinol [[/red underlined]]