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deck covering. Packing lunch with Papayas and sweet potatoes. Left 10 P.M train from Miami for New York via Atlantic coast
Today strong Easterly winds but notice that the windbreaks of trimmed Australian pines are very effective as a shelter to the banana trees etc.
[[underline]] Nov. 30. Sunday.[[/underline]] Slept well till 6:00 AM
[[underline]] Dec 1. [[/underline]] Arrived at 7 AM, drove to University Club for shave and breakfast then to office. [[red underline]] Germans have not written further about controversy with Surcouf.
Schleussner [[/red underline]] is in [[red underline]] bed with pneumonia. Townsend also at home ill. [[/red underline]] 
At Yonkers everybody well also at Georges and Ninas.
[[strikethrough]] [[underline]] Nov 2 [[/underline]] At [[/strikethrough]] Short conferences with Swan, Geo B, Rossi etc about recent events.
[[underline]] Dec 2. [[/underline]] Discussed pending matters and finances with Hays.  
Later afternoon [[red underline]] Tennant [[/red underline]]
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visited me to inquire what prospects for him in Pantone. - Told him we were still in experimental period and would [[strikethrough]] let [[/strikethrough]] keep him posted when we were far enough to discuss possibility of using his services. He told me Photominature gave him and income from $5000 to $6000.
[[underline]] Dec. 3 & 4 [[/underline]] at office very busy. Has been very cold. Today is milder. To day Rossi tells me [[red underline]] Karpen knows all about our negotiations with [[strikethrough]] Carbi [[/strikethrough]]  Union Carbide.[[/red underline]] It looks as if [[red underline]] Sanford Brown [[/red underline]] had not kept his pledge of secrecy. Shall know more about it after interviewing Hays & Redman on this subject.
[[underline]] Dec. 5. [[/underline]] Col. Pope here to inquire further about El Jardin.
[[underline]] Dec. 6 [[/underline]] Here all day.  Evening drove to Century Club monthly dinner. Back here at 10 P.M. On returning find that [[red underline]] 4 bills of $100 which were inside waistcoat pocket are missing. [[/red underline]] This coat had been sent to the cleaner this morning after I had