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who [[underlined in red]] came to sound [[/underlined in red]] me to found out whether I would be disposed to exchange my stock of G. B. Co for a equivalent amount of stock in their Company. [[underlined in red]] I directed [[/underlined in red]] conversation [[underlined in red]] in entirely different [[/underlined in red]] channels and suggested that such a proposition was hard to discuss because I saw no sure way of making any such transaction without having to [[underlined in red]] pay exorbitant sums for taxation. [[/underlined in red]] Townsend also, on the part of Mr. Price of the [[underlined in red]] Union Carbide  Co asks me to state a cash [[/underlined in red]] price as the value of my stock in the G. B. Co and that [[underlined in red]] Mr. Price will be able to make an [[/underlined in red]] offer equivalent thereto
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and to [[underlined in red]] name the sum by [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] next week which [[/underlined in red]] I intend to do
May 6. [[underlined in red]] Seabury came to the Ion [[/underlined in red]] this afternoon
May 7. [[underlined in red]] Dr. Kendal and Mrs. Kendal [[/underlined in red]] here for supper.
May 8 (Sunday). Spent most of day reevaluating financial results and situation of G B. Co so as to be able to arrive at estimate of value of my stock.
May 9. [[underlined in red]] James [[/underlined in red]] tells me his wife not in condition to come here This deprives me [[underlined in red]] of help of my secretary. [[/underlined in red]] 
Evening [[underlined in red]] Mr. Petre, of University  of Louvain, a Hoover [[/underlined in red]] scholarship man here for supper. 
Went [[underlined in red]] to Ion, [[/underlined in red]] got engine going
May 10. All day on Ion. Evening brought [[underlined in red]] [[Heiremans?]], consul General of Belgium [[/underlined in red]] in Santiago Chile here, with his wife, his