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My new [[red underlined]] Koda-Color camera [[/red underlined]] and projector have arrived to day and [[red underlined]] Geo Baekeland is outfitting his Cine Kodak [[/red underlined]] with the necessary [[red underlined]] color screens. [[/red underlined]] 
Afternoon went to [[red underlined]] Larchmont Yacht.[[/red underlined]] Very hot.
[[underlined]] Aug 4. [[/underlined]] I figure that [[red underlined]] the interest of $2000000 at 6% amounts to $320 a day [[/red underlined]] hence necessity of [[red underlined]] husbanding my funds [[/red underlined]] to the [[red underlined]] limit of the term set at Sept 30. [[/red underlined]] 
At home all day calculating my situation and possibilities about the 5000 shares. If [[red underlined]] I buy the 5000 shares this together with my present 12000 [[/red underlined]] makes [[red underlined]] 17000 [[/red underlined]] and brings me [[red underlined]] within about 800 shares of having the monopoly of the common & the preferred stock.  800 friendly shares would [[/red underlined]] 
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thus protect me in any contingency when a majority vote of stockholders is required.
[[underlined]] Aug 5 (Sunday) [[/underlined]] Spent all morning calculating [[red underlined]] what is the most profitable [[/red underlined]] way for meeting the [[red underlined]] $2000,000 [[/red underlined]] payment [[red underlined]] without too much risk in these times when bonds are low and money scarce. Lucky thing that I am well prepared. [[/red underlined]] I have been preparing myself for such an event since many years. The [[red underlined]] guide is not to get the money I can do so early by selling securities, but I do not want to slaughter them unnecessarily [[/red underlined]] 
[[underlined]] Aug 6 [[/underlined]] [[red underlined]] Hays [[/red underlined]] arrived first so could have [[red underlined]] thorough talk [[/red underlined]] with [[red underlined]] him [[/red underlined]] on [[red underlined]] situation. [[/redunderlined]] He gave me [[red underlined]] excellent advice [[/redunderlined]] and says that in as [[red underlined]] far I take the risk [[/red underlined]] and the [[red underlined]] loss [[/red underlined]] of purchasing that block of stock at [[red underlined]] $250000 [[/red underlined]]