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the answer was: "Anytime [[underline]] after [[/underline]] 3 P.M.
[[underline]] April 16. [[/underline]] More Westerly winds today.
[[underline]] April 17. [[/underline]] Frank Draper and [[red underline]] Mershon [[/red underline]] visited this afternoon
[[underline]] April 18 [[/underline]] Wind N.W. since yesterday. This morning 58° warmer later 
[[red underline]] George sends me long telegram from Lowe in Chicago who reports men are dissatisfied, want participation in earnings of company. Zieman wants to quit and is sullen, has been offered [[strikethrough]] better [[/strikethrough]] partnership, Parmelee also etc. [[/red underline]] Wired immediately to George in Scarsdale my views, sent also long telegram to N.Y office giving instructions to transmit to Rossi in relations to German, Italian & French situations.
That telegram of [[red underline]] Lowe [[/red underline]] after the letter I received lately from Gordon Brown, seems to indicate as if [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] unrest [[/red underline]] was being spread, among the [[red underline]] Chicago Group [[/red underline]] 
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May it be that this is the result of [[strikethrough]] Karp [[/strikethrough]] the Karpens who unauthoridedly advised the Chicago men that the sale of R&H stock would give them a chance to get some of the stock? - Or is it [[underline]] a way of [[/underline]] [[red underline]] forcing me to adopt merging with Union Carbide or Dupont? [[/red underline]] 
Those men evidently do not know that the question of additional compensation based on extra services rendered has been one my preoccupations for a long time, but the carrying out of any plans at present is complicated by the fact that [[red underline]] if I change the present issued shares I lose all control and a minority can jeopardise my interests [[/red underline]] and upset the whole future of the company.
[[underline]] April 19 [[/underline]] Here all day. writing letters most of day
[[underline]] April 20. [[/underline]] Drove to Miami this afternoon, to get photos etc