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A few days ago paid the last instalment to George B = $10,799.00 of the total.
                     145,799 $
Paid formerly        135 000
                     _______
Balance               10,799
of money [[underlined]] owed him for purchase of his bonds [[/underlined]]
and to Nina for same as follows
Purchase price =     157999
Paid before          130000
                     ______
Balance due           27,999.00
So everything is paid off now.
My balance on Jan. 8, 1927 is [[underlined]] 110,794$ [[/underlined]] to which will be added some dividend checks and $27500 + 32250 = $60000 for fees (or about 171000$)
Jan 9, 1927. Morning at home wrote letter to N.Y Times signed [[underlined]] Methanol [[/underlined]] baring tricks of Wood products Co in utilizing prohibition department to boost price of [[underlined]] wood alcohol. [[/underlined]]
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Afternoon at office.  
7:15 Dinner in house of ^[[Professor]] Claude at ^[[(Neon lights]] University Club. [[underlined]] General Parsons [[/underlined]] at my left, [[underlined]] Phillip Mallory [[/underlined]] at my right. Dinner presided by [[underlined]] Judge Seaman [[/underlined]] of [[strikethrough]] Merril [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Rogers, Merril [[/underlined]] etc  [[underlined]] D.D. Jackson there [[/underlined]] also all partners of [[underlined]] Hays; Mailloux Pupin [[/underlined]] etc. Very pleasant dinner. [[underlined]] Claude [[/underlined]] explains his new system for making power in tropical seas by using difference of [[underlined]] hot water on top and cold water below. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Jan 11 [[/underlined]]  All morning at office. Evening went to listen to [[underlined]] lecture [[/underlined]] by [[underlined]] Claude [[/underlined]] on his past work and on his new invention for producing power in Tropical seas.  Very interesting lecture. He spoke in English with strong French accent. He made a very [[underlined]] brilliant laboratory exp- [[/underlined]]