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144 [[underlined in red]] ready to agree [[/underlined in red]] with everything. Evening went for supper to University Club. April 8. Here all day. Dictating [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] etc. [[underlined in red]] Gotlelf has succeeded in purifying [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] by recrestallisation[[guess]] the addition compound of hexa and dioxydiphenyl. [[/underlined in red]] at home. Rainy weather. April 9. Hard at work all day on [[underlined in red]] fittings for Ion. [[/underlined in red]] Warm weather. Peach trees all in bloom. April 10 (Sunday) Wrote out State [[underlined in red]] Income [[/underlined in red]] tax returns. Mrs. [[underlined in red]] Morris Loeb visited [[/underlined in red]] this afternoon. April 11. [[underlined in red]] Miss Evans finds [[/underlined in red]] it more difficult to come regularly so made arrangement whereby she [[underlined in red]] comes 3 mornings each [[/underlined in red]] week Lots [[underlined in red]] of more bother in sight without competent clerical [[/underlined in red]] help. [[end page]] [[start page]] 145 April 12. Early to [[underlined in red]] Spuyten Duyvil.[[/underlined in red]] George Roll with Lewis. Jim and his helper took [[underlined in red]] boat [[/underlined in red]] shed down during the morning while I went to R & H. office where I had a long talk with [[underlined in red]] Frankel and Schleussner [[/underlined in red]] (Hamman away) on the subject of arranging the bookkeeping and billing [[strikethrough]] so that [[/strikethrough]] for Dept F. from our Perth Amboy office. And some [[underlined in red]] trouble convincing Frankel but after [[/underlined in red]] he understood me he agreed, so did [[underlined in red]] Schleussner. [[/underlined in red]] Worked till late on Ion. Beautiful weather. Stack & tabernacles erected April 13 [[strikethrough]] afternoon [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] Worked on Ion, [[/underlined in red]] building awning. Afternoon at 3:30 P.M. met [[underlined in red]] Leopold DeMuth [[/underlined in red]] with May & Swan, talked over transparent situation, [[underlined in red]] foreign competition price cutting etc. All very friendly De Mutt says his business is losing [[/underlined in red]]
Transcription Notes:
"Ion" is the name of Dr. Baekeland's boat.