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144 period last year and [[red underline]] factories are working 20 hours shifts [[/red underline]] March 28. At office 9 AM. The booklet [[red underline]] "The Story of Bakelite" [[/red underline]] is just out. Piles of belated correspondence of every kind. Same thing at Yonkers. [[strikethrough]] notices [[/strikethrough]] ^[[articles]] in the papers make me [[strikethrough]] ren [[/strikethrough]] get letters from everywhere for favors also some cranks. [[red X in left margin next to following entry]] [[red underline]] Everybody thinks of me to help them out of trouble. This is the punishment [[/red underline]] of getting known too much. [[/red X entry]] At 10 A.M. [[red underline]] Executive meeting Schleussner [[/red underline]] absent in Europe. No time lost. - Sandwiches standing - [[red underline]] Further trouble with Boonton Rubber Co [[/red underline]] who owes us more money. At 3 P.M. Directors meeting all there except Leo Karpen. Berlitzheimer who is [[red underline]] still ill [[/red underline]] and Schluessner who is in Europe [[end page]] [[start page]] 145 Net [[red underline]] earnings for 1923 [[/red underline]] much higher [[red underline]] than 1922 [[/red underline]] but less than proportionate increase of sales. Declared a [[red underline]] 2% to 4% extra dividend. [[/red underline]] At 5 P.M went to [[red underline]] see film showing the story of Bakelite. I do not like [[/red underline]] it at all. - seems effort wasted on a [[red underline]] mediocre result. [[/red underline]] Then home with 6:15 P.M train. Strenuous day March 29. [[red underline]] Hecht [[/red underline]] came at 9 AM to office by appointment [[strikethrough]] Asks me [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Implores me on part of Bakelite Gessellschaft to withdraw my action thru American Government for German Claims. [[/red underline]] Tell him the reason that the joint commission of the American and German Government is a ^[[more]] suitable for determining our respective rights and obligations than any German court or any private
