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July 17. Went to [[red underline]] factory. Shannon is making hexatriphenol and colorless novolak as per my orders. Laurence is ill [[/red underline]] at home.
[[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] tells me orders for [[red underline]] transparent are increasing so rapidly [[/red underline]] that our present capacity which is about [[red underline]] 250000 lbs [[/red underline]] [[two large red exclamation points in left margin]] per year is only [[red underline]] half enough. He proposes moving whole transparent department to the floor below, [[/red underline]] and move from there the [[red underline]] Leary ball mills mechanical laboratories [[/red underline]] etc. [[left margin vertical notation in red]] Rossi and transparent [[/left margin]]
I do [[red underline]] not like this idea [[/red underline]] which will cause again much disorder and difficult conditions. [[red underline]] Told him we are not by any means certain that present increase in orders may not be spasmadical and [[/red underline]] [[two large red exclamation points in left margin]]
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that before long [[red underline]] exactly the reverse may occur when we are confronted with very active competition here and abroad. That in both cases we may be compelled to add [[red underline]] an extra building [[/red underline]] that therefore we should instal [[red underline]] additional equipment in the transparent room [[/red underline]] for instance double the capacity of our return condenser etc.  [[large red exlamation point in left margin]] organize additional lead room in some other floor and send the molds up. and in the mean time make plans for further extension of the building. We finally agreed on this. [[strikethrough]] Had conference [[/strikethrough]] Went aboard [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] at lunch. cooked some crabs I had caught myself and after taking in gasoline (80 gall.) at 24 1/2 c per gal. and 10 gall lubricating oil at 93c per gall