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[[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] telling about tribulations of [[red underline]] George Roll [[/red underline]] who gave up his position to join a certain De Golier, then found out the latter n.g. etc. All this comes to me: Dominus providebit
Nov. 9. [[red underline]] Pupin, George Peet and Robert Bridges here at Snug [[/red underline]] Rock for lunch, celebrating [[red underline]] the birth of Cornelia. [[/red underline]] Afterwards took them back to the University Club. Beautiful mild weather
Nov 10. All morning here. Afternoon went to join Lewis on the [[red underline]] boat [[/red underline]] preparing for taking her out of commission. Warner working on engine 
Nov 11. Was notified by Beanes of [[red underline]] Westinghouse [[/red underline]] that Condensite [[red underline]] Company [[/red underline]] threaten them with an infringement suit. as far as I can see there is no
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justification for it. ^[[Use of benzol + alcohol as solvent.]] Busy here all day.
Nov 12. Here all day. Evening [[red underline]] Mr & Mrs Fortson [[/red underline]] here for supper. [[red underline]] Fortson [[/red underline]] was a fellow aviator of George in Italy and is a warm friend of [[red underline]] George. [[/red underline]] He tells me [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] hopes to get a position in their chemical factory for the manufacture of potash [[red underline]] from Green Sand. [[/red underline]] His [[red underline]] brother in law is Schmidtman [[/red underline]] ^[[son of]] same [[red underline]] Schmidtman [[/red underline]] who caused that commotion in Aug 1909 at the Astor Hotel in Berlin when he refused to join the potash suit.
I told [[red underline]] Fortson [[/red underline]] that I was rather astonished to see George desirous of a job based in a chemical factory when he had always expressed