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[[left margin in red]] Carelessness of Bloomfield [[/left margin]]
[[underline]] July 24 [[/underline]] Left for Bloomfield from Snug Rock at 7:00 AM. arrived at Holland Tunnel in New York at 7:45AM, took 5 min, thru tunnel and reached Bloomfield [[strikethrough]] Labo [[/strikethrough]] plant at 8:20 AM. - Quick ride. Left Bloomfield 1P.M but returned over Palisades and was back Snug Rock at about 3P.M.
[[red underline]] Visited Physical Dept. all but 2 men were out. [[/red underline]] - Then Laminated Dept and new buildings. [[/red underline]] - Much lost space, much unnecessary expenses and unnecessary equipment put as if it were a University funded lab. [[/red underline]] etc. Everything [[strikethrough]] expensive and [[/strikethrough]] unnecessary expense and considerable duplication For instance triplicates of air-conditioning chamber costing $12000 [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] and costing much for continuous operation
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Had [[red underline]] long conference with Weith [[red underline]] pointing out extravagances and unnecessary expenses and dwindling income of company.
Then special [[red underline]] conference with Weith Chamberlin and Nash. [[/red underline]] specially in relation to our [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] molding materials of which quality is below that of our competitors. [[/red underline]] From what I was told I learn that [[red underline]] Chamberlin,, Nash and Shannon [[/red underline]] have taken up the subject vigorously and [[red underline]] between them are carrying [[/red underline]] out the necessary experiments for [[red underline]] improving our m.m. [[/red underline]] and we may [[strikethrough]] I suggested to [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] soon expect better news. Chamberlin [[/red underline]] tells me that the mfg departments here and in [[red underline]] Chicago have contributed to [[/red underline]] the trouble of [[red underline]] wood-flour specks [[/red underline]] which made us loose Western Electric orders, because