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44 [[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Dane [[/vertical annotation]] quite family party. The ones missing [[red underline]] George Baekeland and his ones all remembered. [[/red underline]] George Roll and I spent most of day discussing affairs and plans of Dane Molding Co and General Bakelite Company. Nov 26. George Roll went early to Newark, while I gave order to Fuller how to write out his new budget so that I can submit it. He is to take this letter and budget of Fuller [[red underline]] to Rossi [[/red underline]] for his comments and to May for his approval or criticism. But I find out [[red underline]] May left [[/red underline]] evening before Thanksgiving and will not be back before Monday and in the mean time his letters remain unopened including [[end page]] [[start page]] 45 some urgent letters which I mailed to him last night. Told to [[red underline]] Swan that if May [[/red underline]] is away, business matters should not stop. Wrote a letter to May, (private and personal) in which I insist politely but firmly that the affairs of the G.B. Co [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] should not be stopped or delayed every time he takes a vacation. (See my letter of today.) Nov.27. [[red underline]] George Roll [[/red underline]] out to [[strikethrough]] Newark [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Swan]] to [[strikethrough] get [[/strikethrough]] ^[[submit]] reduced budget estimate from Fuller. Yesterday he went to Rossi who thinks [[red underline]] Fuller uses unnecessarily large [[/red underline]] amount of men around him. I went to fetch Robert Mond at Belmont and took him to lunch at Century Club. Talk drifted from babies milk, hospitals, British Navy blunders, Northcliffe, war work to Egyptian Antiquities and excavations