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[[underlined]] Nov 25 [[/underlined]] Put the [[underlined in red]] latest wine in 5 gall [[/underlined in red]] bottles to ferment further. CO2 evolution has become faint.
[[underlined]] Nov. 26. Thanksgiving [[/underlined]] ^[[Day]]. Here all day writing and studying.
Nov. 27 Nov. 28 packing etc.
[[underlined]] Nov. 29: Sunday [[/underlined]] [[underlined in red]] George arrived with Cornelia [[/underlined in red]] 8 A.M. took them to "Anchorage" swim etc. then fetched Doring and his wife. Visited Matheson Hammock etc. [[red underlined]] They all left for Nassau 4 P.M [[/red underlined]] and I left for New York 9:50 P.M. my trunk filled with Grape fruit Tangelos etc.
[[underlined]] Nov 30 [[/underlined]] on train. [[underlined]] Dec. 1 [[/underlined]] [[underlined in red]] arrived [[/underlined in red]] N.Y. 6:30 AM Early to office Interview Rossi - Swan Sanford Brown on different pending subjects. [[red underlined]] Sales still unsatisfactory Our molding mixtures still inferior [[/red underlined]] to our competitors. No improvement in our sales. Evg went for supper to U.C. Celine with Nina and George Roll to
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theater in New York. [[red underlined]] General business conditions unimproved - or worse than before [[/red underlined]] [[red exclamation point]]
[[underlined]] Dec. 2. [[/underlined]]
Very busy day at office [[red underlined]] conferences [[/red underlined]] with all available men [[red underlined]] separately [[/red underlined]]
[[underlined]] Dec 3 [[/underlined]] Long conference with Redman & Weith on present situation. Also their report on [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] the research work I had out before leaving so as to determine what high molecular phenols and what high molecular aldehydes might be used for producing at soluble resins etc. They submitted on large sheets indicating the results in several instances suitable phenolic bodies had been found but they were very expensive or not available.  [[red underlined]] Urged them to go ahead and cover the field as promptly as possible [[/red underlined]]
[[underlined]] Dec 4. [[/underlined]] Long talk with [[red underlined]] Hays and Horn about financial condition of corporation [[/red underlined]] and the necessary deductions of losses before the year so as not to have to pay undue taxes. Loss? of Italy shall have to be postponed until next year.
Dec 5 - Saturday stayed home to do