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wrestling with my [[red underline]] income tax returns. [[/red underline]] But Celine has left me incomplete and doubtful data so as to make the whole thing more grim work. [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] which makes me feel rather [[strikethrough]] perturbed [[/strikethrough]] impatient about this unbusinesslike condition which so much [[strikethrough]] conten [[/strikethrough]] complicates and delays a job [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] that should be terminated before I leave again [[strikethrough]] as I shall in [[/strikethrough]] with the intention of not returning before the mild weather sets in.
Jan 31. Went early to meet Frankel who submits gain & loss account of year. We have lost [[red underline]] $59000 [[/red underline]] in the sale of [[red underline]] our liberty [[/red underline]] bonds and $115000 in the Dane [[strikethrough]] Mf [[/strikethrough]] Molding Co blunder making a total extraordinary deduction of
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our profits of about $174000 a big sum of money in one single year 
This together with [[red underline]] present slack orders [[/red underline]] compels us to be very cautious for the future. I am again considerably bothered because [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] has [[strikethrough]] failed [[/strikethrough]] not filed properly the [[strikethrough]] returns of [[/strikethrough]] corresponding data for the year 1919 so I cannot compare them. 
A long talk [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] with Hamman & [[red underline]] Schleussner [[/red underline]] about affairs of [[red underline]] Dane molding Co. [[/red underline]] told them my repeated meetings and conferences of last week and submitted our joint conclusions arrived upon at our conference last week in Mays office. They fully agree with our plans. Are willing also to rent us part of their sodium building in Perth Amboy for installing equipment of [[red underline]] Dane [[/red underline]] should we decide to move from there. No terms discussed. Afterwards met Burroughs for lunch at Columbia University