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solid solvent. [[?]] also carry out the first heating which changes A into B or C into an inert gas medium or vacuum so as to prevent discoloration by oxydation. For instance produces a sponge of B or C in a CO2 filled container at ordinary atmospheric pressure or submitting it during or after heating to vacuum. Then take the sponge and hot press it in blocks or suitable molds. Rossi says he will put Schrimpe at this. I told Rossi I had already [[strikethrough]] submitted p [[/strikethrough]] ordered Gothelf to start experiments along this line.
Called up Mr. Terry vice-president of Westinghouse Co  Repeated to him that if he desired to meet me at any time convenient to him I
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would go to New York and if there was anything we could transact over the telephone we might do so. He repeated his plan that in view of the friendly relations and treatment we had had from Westinghouse Co, they thought that we should stop General Electric Co from making laminated canvass gears or at least refuse to supply them with bakelite for this purpose. I told him that to do so would be unfair to the G.E. Co which was an older customer than the Westinghouse Co. That we already had much incurred their displeasure by trying to convince them not to make composite cardboard except for their own consumption. But that there was no composite cardboard but simply a canvass article. That the strength of