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presence or absence of these substances in novolak [[?]] as its quality for our purposes.
4/ Study uses for these substances 
At 5 P.M. [[underlined]] Ellwood Hendrick [[/underlined]] presided the Chemical Engineers Tea at the Faculty Club, and gave a very interesting talk on his [[underlined]] trip to South Africa [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Nov 8. [[/underlined]] Election day. Altho' the office had a holiday I had summoned [[underlined]] George B, Rossi & Swan [[/underlined]] to be present to meet [[underlined]] Potter [[/underlined]] of England 
[[left margin]] X [[/left margin]] 
Asked him various information. Business in England has improved. No trouble whatsoever of ministering same rate dividend. Even [[underlined]] Moldensite Division [[/underlined]] on which Rossi reported discouragingly has earned [[underlined]] $10000 profits for first months.  
Potter is very satisfied [[/underlined]] with whole personal. [[underlined]] Rossi [[/underlined]] had 
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reported discouragingly about [[underlined]] Schmidt; [[/underlined]] Potter says he is all right and very useful and has put him at the head of Service for the Northern District. He also says [[underlined]] Mann is very good - Rossi had reported unfavorably [[/underlined]] about the latter
Everybody is happy about the consolidation and loyal and full of hope.
The only [[underlined]] worry is about Bishop 
He has nothing to do [[/underlined]] and is of very limited use, due to his [[underlined]] lack of technical [[/underlined]] knowledge. Hence tries to meddle so as to show his usefulness or to try to earn his large salary and often thus [[strikethrough]] becaus [[/strikethrough]] does more harm than good.
He put [[underlined]] his deaf brother [[underline]] in the Damard company at a salary of [[underlined]] $3000 [[/underlined]] Which is [[underlined]] twice as much [[/underlined]] as another employ who does similar work better