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134 in Lake shore 7$, first they offered me one at $12. Cold and cloudy and windy. Went to office and factory. [[red underline]] Good impression. [[/red underline]] Long talk with Karpen on pending questions. Karpen is against Haveg project. [[red underline]] Explained him present situation of R&H in relation to their newly acquired process for making formaldehyde from hydrocarbons which seems to put them in a position to dominate the market. [[/red underline]] [[vertical red line in left column to end of page with annotation in red "R&H tricks"]] Process was not even offered to us by Daugherty Research Co. inventors thereof because R&H with their president treasurer and first [[strikethrough]] President of Bakelite [[/strikethrough]] vice President of Bakelite Corporation and Schleussner 2d vice president and secretary give the impression to outsider that Bakelite is dominated by R&H. This is harmful and diminishes [[/vertical red line in left column with annotation "R&H tricks"]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[vertical annotation in left margin in red]] Chicago plant & office [[/vertical annotation]] our [[red underline]] prestige and power [[/red underline]] in all buying operations. Karpen Redman, & Rossi fully agree with me. [[strikethrough]] E [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] 27 men & women [[/red underline]] in our Chicago office of which monthly rent is 48$ which corresponds to about 25 cents per foot per year of floor space. [[underline]] May 25. [[/underline]] All morning at ^[[factory.]] [[strikethrough]] E [[/strikethrough]] Evening was [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] guest at the [[red underline]] Willard Gibbs Medal award to Professor Harkins [[/red underline]] at the dinner of [[red underline]] A.C.S. Chicago Section [[/red underline]] at Palmer house. Very pleasant evening. I sat at the right of the Chairman (Redman (- [[/underline]] not ^[[our]] L.V. Redman [[/underline]]) on my right was Professor [[underline]] Compton recently Nobel Prize in Physics. [[/underline]] Very interesting evening and several good addresses on physical chemistry, Unity of matter My short address on [[red underline]] Prouts hypo- [[/red underline]]