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[[underline]]2[[/underline]][[underline]]July 4[[/underline]]. Cool pleasant weather. Zero firecrackers, incomparably quieter than in earlier years
[[underline]]July 5[[/underline]] Restful day at home
[[underline]]July 5[[/underline]] [[strikethrough]](Sunday)[[/strikethrough]] Rain
July(6) ditto
July 7. Office.   July 8. ditto
[[underline]]July 9.[[/underline]] Meeting Bender Turkington Calan Brown and Nielson in office, discussing writing of papers concerning bakelite or new varnishes. or art thereto bold item  [[underline]]They should not hesitate to write word Bakelite instead of resinoids. If they do the latter they simple help our competitors and miss expensive opportunities of keeping our housle mouth before the public. -that as far as "resinoids" is concerned I do not care whether they use it or not. That I simply proposed this word when the hande-molders wanted a single word for devaporating synthetic 
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[[note written on left side of page perpendicular to rest of writing "Why the word Bakelite"]]
3) resins and when the absurd word "Synthoid" was proposed I suggested resinoid which was already in use since I first suggested it.  That wheneve they use the word [[underline]] resinoid [[/underline]] I advised them to [[underline]] have it preceeded by the word "Bakelite" [[/underline]] as to clearly indicate they mean [[underline]] Bakelite resinoid [[/underline]]  That if they wanted to be pedantic and use the word resinoid only for heat hardenable synthetic resin they should bear in mind that there is no clear distinction between [[strikethrough]] fusible [[/strikethrough]] these artificial resins, specifically when they are mixed or formed together in variable proportions.  No more than there is a clear distinction between metalloids and metals and that even then alloys of certain metalloids with certain metals can not be classed rigorously