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Wrote to George I [[red underline]] am against paying any dividends on common or preferred unless business improves enough [[/red underline]] not to show losses
[[underline]] Feb 28 [[/underline]] (Sunday). Received special delivery letter from George with modifications of [[red underline]] French contract as submitted by Germans. Worked steadily on answer and my amendment and wired answer by evening Today a Northerly but bright and warm
Letter [[red underline]] Shrimpe [[/red underline]] describing ^[[attempt at]] practical use of [[red underline]] Pantone [[/red underline]] black and colors showing difficulties of having to stop for reinking and calling attention to fact that mercury ink is great drawback and would cost 8 cents a lb. as compared to 3¢ with present ink this would make it prohibitive for newspaper printing. the so called "kiss-brush" of Trist which was a failure may have to be resurrected. unless we
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find another way to overcome objections of ink and writing [[red underline]] George who is very optimistic [[/red underline]] about Pantone and thinks we are over our difficulties seems to underestimate the drawbacks [[red underline]] Always ready to counteract optimism of Redman [[/red underline]] and the Research group, [[red underline]] he has a tendency of minimizing the drawbacks of inventions etc offered by outsiders. [[/red underline]] - [[strikethrough]] Green [[/strikethrough]] "All field look green far away."
Also special delivery letter with Contract (by Nielsen) with Carburundum Co relating to taking over patents. ^[[My]] Answer mailed same day. special delivery
[[underline]] Feb. 29. [[/underline]] Wrote to Redman [[red underline]] suggesting mixing our powdered A with paraform or other methylen bodies [[/red underline]] before incorporating into molding mixtures [[red underline]] so as to hasten polymerisation and to eliminate free phenols, [[/red underline]] thus preventing darkening of color