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[[red underline]] enter full of varnishes [[/red underline]] air drying etc. Ditto molded brake linings. Ditto further work on toilet seats and to [[red underline]] retain Layman from month to month.
Also to build a central plant. I make exception that [[strikethrough]] before a [[/strikethrough]] location must first be found and also explained my corrections as to calculations of manufacturing staff.
Not a trace of the black pessimism expressed before and at the meeting of Coral Gables of March 10 [[/red underline]] 
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[[red underline]] Hays absent at all these meetings 
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[[underline]] March 31. [[/underline]] Further meeting and discussion with Karpen as to how to bid for R&H's Bakelite Stock. Evening 6:30 P.M [[strikethrough]] meeting w [[/strikethrough]] Dinner-meeting presided by Dr. [[strikethrough]] Du [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Stephen Duggan [[/red underline]]
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at [[red underline]] Cosmopolitan Club. [[/red underline]] Duggan is leaving for Europe and this is meeting of Institute of International education Dr. [[red underline]] Pritchett, Judge John Bassett Moore, Morganthau. [[/red underline]] and others present.
Afterwards attended 9:30 P.M Concert at University Club ( (Annual meeting) and.. so to bed.
[[underline]] April 1. [[/underline]] 1928 (Sunday) At Club all day. [[red underline]] George Baekeland joined me at noon for luncheon [[/red underline]] and we had a long [[red underline]] heart to heart talk together on present problems. [[/red underline]] Told him that if [[red underline]] he desired to leave Bakelite to engage in more congenial work I would not interfere [[/red underline]] nor do anything contrary to his desires. All I wanted is [[red underline]] to see him happy and successful. [[/red underline]] On the