Viewing page 21 of 65

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

37/
among its principal directors the former principal owner of the Wood Products Co. (Stevens?) whose [[underlined in red]] wood alcohol [[/underlined in red]] plants now belong as part of the U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. [[underlined in red]] Stevens (?) [[/underlined in red]] further seems to have a considerable interest in [[underlined in red]] General Plastics (Durez) [[/underlined in red]] and that probably this was intended to give an outlet to their wood-alcohol as formaldehyde. - Took supper at University Club, and met several of my old friends 
[[underlined]] July 25. [[/underlined]] Sent a draft of $50.00 to Rachel. Weather is cooler. - Went to Radio City in the new Rockefeller Center, [[strikethrough]] Am [[/strikethrough]] at 1 P.M to 3 P.M. [[underlined in red]] Enormous place entirely filled. And they call this a depression. [[/underlined in red]] Excellent music and general performance.
[[note in left margin in red]] Anchorage [[/note in left margin]]
Received [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] from [[underlined in red]] Coconut Grove [[/underlined in red]] a quantity of [[underlined in red]] large mangoes (Hayden), [[/underlined in red]] also [[overwritten]] some [[/overwritten]] for first time some of the yellow [[underlined in red]] mangoes [[/underlined in red]] (Chinese Variety) grafted by Andrew on that [[underlined in red]] Molgoba [[/underlined in red]] on the Calvert boundary line. They are smaller than the Hayden's [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] and have a slight sour taste which is not disagreeable.
Received also about a [[underlined in red]] bushel of sturdy Akee fruit [[/underlined in red]] which I taught the cook (Helen) to gently fry in butter for my daily breakfast and as a first dish for my supper
[[underlined]] July 26. [[/underlined]] That new blanket Business "Code" for employment raises many unexpected complications. The men who conceived it have again generalised too much and
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
38/
have not taken in consideration many rather specialised industries like ours; which cannot be dealt with like a rolling mill, a brick yard, or a spinnery. - The [[underlined in red]] Plastic mfrs are grouping themselves to propose a special code. - [[/underlined in red]] So are other branches of the chemical industry [[underlined in red]] George is back from camp. [[/underlined in red]] - Cooler.
[[note in left margin in red]] [[underlined in ed]] Bound Brook [[/underlined in red]] Holland Tunnel [[/note in left margin in red]]
[[underlined]] July 27 [[/underlined]] Left here at 7:30 AM for a surprise visit to Bound brook. Dick driving thru New York, [[underlined in red]] the new viaducts [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] along [[/strikethrough]] in New York along the docks, the [[underlined in red]] Holland tunnel and [[/underlined in red]] the new viaducts are an enormous improvement for fast driving. We arrived at [[strikethrough]] our factory [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] Bound-Brook factory at 9:30 A.M. [[/underlined in red]] At the entrance gate saw about [[underlined in red]] 100 men standing [[overwritten]] to [[/overwritten]] applying for work [[/underlined in red]] in expectation of additional workers being needed on account of the "Code", as enacted by President Roosevelt.
[[underlined in red]] Hundreds of motor cars from our employees are now parked in our private parking grounds and give the place a busy [[/underlined in red]] appearance. All buildings are now finished and the spacious office bdg looks like a [[underlined in red]] busy beehive [[/underlined in red]] and everybody and everything spick and span. [[strikethrough]] Made a tour of [[/strikethrough]] Started a tour of the buildings with [[underlined in red]] Oak [[/underlined in red]] until we reached the room where [[underlined in red]] Molinari [[/underlined in red]] is at work on his [[underlined in red]] fractionation [[/underlined in red]] of higher [[strikethrough]] phenols, control of [[/strikethrough]] homologs of [[underlined in red]] phenol [[/underlined in red]] as found in crude tar-acids. 
[[note in left margin in red, underlined]] Molinari Improved [[/note in left margin in red]]
Has a [[underlined in red]] comparatively large experimental still, with a colum [[/underlined in red]] which reaches the high ceiling of the building. One of the other problems he has undertaken is [[underlined in red]] better control of the resinification [[/underlined in red]] by carrying it out in present of a diluent solvent in a reflux so as to eliminate [[underlined]] gradually [[/underlined]] the water liberated instead of waiting the end of the reaction before proceeding to eliminate. The