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65/ [[left margin]] R.N.A. [[/left margin]] and similar occurrences among our neighboring factories in Bound Brook. This together with happenings in Cuba, make disquietening news. Question of paying dividends was not touched upon. [[left margin]] Chicago Exposition [[/left margin]] [[underlined]] Sept 7 [[/underlined]] All morning at office. Took 1 P.M. train for [[red underlined]] Chicago [[/red underlined]] Very hot! Paid George 400$ cash on account for Pantone stock he bought last year to my order. Long telephone conversation [[strikethrough]] ab [[/strikethrough]] with [[red underline]] Bender [[/red underlined]], urging him to [[red underlined]] try hydroxylamine [[/red underline]] or its sulphate + Ba(OH)2 etc. instead or in mixture with ethylendiamine for urea + paraform resinoids. [[left margin]] [[red underlined]] Bender [[/red underlined]] [[/left margin]] [[underlined]] Sept 8 [[/underlined]] Up early, train arrived in [[red underlined]] Chicago at 8 AM. [[/red underlined]] Robert [[red underlined]] Brenecke [[/red underlined]] had reserved for me a room at Medinah Athletic Club [[strikethrough]] hot [[/strikethrough]] hotel. A huge structure in Moorish style on South Michigan Ave, which was started as a Club for Shriners now run as a hotel. A crowd before the office all wanting accommodations. Luckily I got a room on the 20th floor. Plain small room but fortunately a shower bath which permitted me to clean and cool off somewhat. Very sultry day and [[red underlined]] hot, reminds me of Bangkok and Saigon [[/red underlined]] or Surabaya! [[left margin]] hot! [[/left margin]] Called up Robert Brenecke who is the head of our office here. His [[red underlined]] wife expects a baby [[/red underlined]] today or tomorrow. He drove me to the exposition. This is 'children day" when they are admitted for 5 cents. So noisy crowds everywhere and [[red underlined]] hot merciless sun [[/red underlined]] and no wind! and noise everywhere. This [[red underlined]] exposition lacks the graceful architectural effect of 1893 [[/red underlined]] [[strikethrough]] with the [[/strikethrough]] Those cubist buildings and shrieking blue, red, yellow [[end page]] [[start page]] \66 colors, irritate. But the [[red underlined]] Hall of Science [[/red underlined]] and other buildings make a [[red underlined]] great impression. [[/red underlined]] I am able to measure what has been accomplished since I [[red underlined]] was here in 1893. A visit to the Hall of Science [[/red underlined]] in itself is abundantly worth the trip to Chicago. [[left margin]] Bakelite exhibit [[/left margin]] Our [[red underlined]] Bakelite exhibit [[/red underlined]] is very ingeniously arranged to explain the reactions between raw materials and further stages of industrial utilisation. [[left margin]] U. Carbide exhibit [[/left margin]] One of the most impressive exhibits here is [[red underlined]] Union Carbide and Carbon Co's elaborate showing [[/red underlined]] its processes and materials and their utilisation. - This part of the exhibition is far ahead of anything undertaken until now. Walking around in this [[red underlined]] hot sun for almost a full day [[/red underlined]] is quite a strain I am pleased to see however the interest which is taken by visitors, young and old of both sexes in the scientific exhibitions. I am very glad Celine did not come in this hot weather and crowds. Came back to hotel very tired and night was so hot that I could not fall asleep. Tried to sleep stripped-naked and finally succeeded to have a few hour's rest [[underlined]] Sept. 9 [[/underlined]] Brenecke [[strikethrough]] wires [[/strikethrough]] ^[[telephones]] me his baby has not yet arrived, but that Karpen called him up and will phone again to know where he can meet me. Told Brenecke to tell Karpen that I do not want to be disturbed therefore had instructed him not to give my address.
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Brenecke is a misspelling of Brennecke who was mentioned in a Bakelite patent case in 1933
