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of a [[underlined]]blatant post-mortem advertisement[[underlined]] of [[underlined]]wealth acquired sometimes[[underlined]] in the [[underlined]]most vulgar way.[[underlined]]  Liquor distilling for instance.
[[underlined]]Oct 5.[[underlined]]  Went to [[underlined]]Zoological[[underlined]] park then to [[underlined]]Natural history[[underlined]] museum.  The latter rather limited.  Then went to [[underlined]]Bakelite Italiana.[[underlined]]  Nobody there.  [[underlined]]Molenari[[underlined]] is in New York and Quarteri's wife had [[underlined]]today her first baby.[[underlined]]  They tell me [[underlined]]Mills[[underlined]] of Toronto plant has just arrived there.
[[underlined]]Oct 6.  Senator Quarteri his son, and Mills came early at the hotel[[underlined]] to return my call.  Sen. Quarteri had to return
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but his son took me and Mills for [[underlined]]luncheon[[underlined]] and we had a pleasant general chat.  We all agreed [[underlined]]contrary to the opinion of Rossi,[[underlined]] that it would be [[underlined]]dangerous to teach anybody in Italy[[underlined]] the [[underlined]]details of manufacturing laminated[[underlined]] goods, in view of the facts that we have no patents to protect us and that as soon as they have the information they will make their own varnish or buy it from competitors.  We ourselves must enter that field in Italy and make our own laminated
[[underlined]]Oct 6.[[underlined]]  Tomorrow I shall leave for Nice and have cabled this to New York.
[[underlined]]Oct 7.[[underlined]]  Left for [[underlined]]Nice[[underlined]] with train at about 9 AM.  Hotel bill contains item