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Both of them feel [[red underlined]] business is going worse than last year which is somewhat contrary to weekly reports and letters of Swan & Rossi.  But they want to make economies. - Yet they have been the greatest sinners in extravagance.  [[/underlined]]  Hays candidly says that it would be [[underlined]] absurd to place our stock on the market unless we deceive the public as to our reduced returns and correctly says that any such action ought to be postponed until economies are affected and the company makes better showing.  All this of course is simply part of their plan of trying to control the business over me. [[/red underline]] - But what discourages me most is that [[red underline]] Hays tells me that George [[/red underline]] has lost all interest 
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[[red underlined]] in B.C. and wants to enter some other business.  [[/red underlined]] Hays adds that it is a case where [[red underlined]] "all fields look green [[/red underlined]] far away" and that George soon will learn that there are few opportunities for him as good as Bakelite Corporation.  Its the [[red underlined]] same old story. - wanting the moon.  [[/red underlined]] [[strikethrough]] There is [[/strikethrough]] Celine received another letter from [[red underlined]] George in which he expressed himself in the same pessimistic attitude about the future of B.C. [[/red underlined]] and in which he seems to have [[red underlined]] decided definitely to quit. [[/red underlined]] [[strikethrough]] Afternoon [[/strikethrough]] Road is finished
[[underlined]] March 9 [[/underlined]] Slept better last night.  Children were kept away from house to give me some rest.  Dade County's [[red underlined]] convict labor is paving the road of the church [[/red underlined]] and my entrance with rock & steamrollers.  [[red underlined]] Electric water heater [[/red underlined]] being
[[left margin vertically in red and underlined]] George wants to quit B.C. [[/left margin]]