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[[left margin in red]] Bakelite Halowax [[/left margin in red]]
example of Bakelite which always and even to day is several times more expensive than rubber, and consumers paying for it, wherever rubber is not suitable.
Gave him same example for our bakelite grinding wheels, when mfrs for 17 years objected against the price, while now they find it cheaper than shellack, rubber or silicates, because technical effect makes it so.
[[left margin in red]] [[red underline]] Salas [[/red underline]] [[/left margin in red]]
[[red underline]] Salas is a well educated man [[/red underline]] speaking Spanish as well as English. Probably also French? - I was astonished at the way he discussed the electrical constants and chemical aspects, until later on he told me he was a [[red underline]] student at Columbia [[/red underline]] in the chemical dept and knew Chandler, Bogert, Metzger, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Alexander Smith etc.  Was [[strikethrough]] taking [[/strikethrough]] studying for his Ph.d. when the war broke out and he went to England to serve in military service. He is a A.B. & M.S. - [[red underline]] Was in Mexico under Madera. [[/red underline]]  Potter at my request, will write a further report about Halowax situation.
Good room outside (to myself) is offered, on [[red underline]] "Statendam" [[/red underline]]]] on B deck for £39-15.0, 
[[left margin]] $141.00 [[/left margin]] - and same room with bath at £44-6-6, 
[[left margin]] [[red underline]] $158.00 [[/red underline]] [[/left margin]] including ticket to Southampton or about $17.00 more of which about 10$ for bath attached.
Went to [[red underline]] Swinburne's [[/red underline]] house at 4 P.M. He had invited me for dinner but Potter had told him that I preferred a visit for tea as I avoided dinners. He lives with his children  19 Brahman Gardens, SW.5. Pleasant quiet neighborhood of houses moderate
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[[left margin in red]] London Swinburne [[/left margin in red]]
in size but cultured neighborhood with small well cared gardens. Furnishings modest but well selected and showing ancestry. A small but well diversified library. Had a very pleasant long talk about many matters and mutual friends, many of them dead now, others [[strikethrough]] quite [[/strikethrough]] rather old or our own age.
This part of London is ([[strikethrough]] Ken [[/strikethrough]] S. Kensington?) is very different from the noisy congested part near the center, and looks like another town.
People speak of [[red underline]] "hot summer days" [[/red underline]] and I have been wearing all the time my [[strikethrough]] heaviest [[/strikethrough]] heavy winter shoes, and my blue serge winter suit above warm underwear!
Around the center I am more and more impressed with the fact that here in London as in Belgium and Germany in fact all over Europe one sees so [[red underline]] many cripples, blinds, undersized deformed men & women. [[/red underline]] I do not mean those maimed during the war. This fact is so much more apparent in England [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]] as a [[red underline]] contrast to many well built athletic looking men [[/red underline]] and women, as a contrast.  
[[left margin in red]] London Cinemas [[/left margin in red]]
I went to a Cinema. - Again an American film - "The Beast of the Town" again a play of the American underworld, with gangsters, killing etc." When will this end. What wasted opportunities for using films for educational and cultural purposes as the Germans have begun to do. It seems the public wants these [[red underline]] brutal [[/red underline]] subjects, otherwise it would boycott them instead of filling the Cinema houses that produce them

Transcription Notes:
Dr. Baekeland may mean "Bramham Gardens" which are in SW5, London