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food well prepared and well served. - Whole dinner menu very generously [[strikethrough]] rat [[/strikethrough]] choice only One Dollar.
[[underline]] May 23 [[/underline]] Went to [[red underline]] Dr. Jeffrey [[/red underline]] to try my blood pressure once more, this time after I had been swimming 3 quarters of an hour. He reports 128/76 [[red underline]] which is excellent [[/red underline]] for my age. - Just weighed myself yesterday evening at the Pan. American Airplane scale, which confirms my [[red underline]] weight naked [[/red underline]] ^[[174]] [[strikethrough]] to be 160 lb [[/strikethrough]] which is very good for my height. 17
[[left margin]] Government wants to sue R&H [[/left margin]]
Papers announce that U.S. [[red underline]] Government [[/red underline]] wants [[red underline]] to sue [[/red underline]] former stockholders of [[strikethrough]] R&H [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Roessler Hasslacher [[/red underline]] Co now a subsidiary of [[red underline]] Dupont Co [[/red underline]] for immense taxes and fines because some of the denatured industrial alcohol they sold got into the hands of boot-leggers who sold it for drinking purposes! [[red underline]] Dupont rejects responsibility [[/red underline]] - What next ?
[[underline]] May 24. [[/underline]] Rain ceased for today but more mosquitoes
[[left margin]] Fairchild [[/left margin]]
[[underline]] May 25 [[/underline]] Went out on [[red underline]] ION [[/red underline]] with [[red underline]] Dr. Fairchild, [[/red underline]] his son [[red underline]] Graham [[/red underline]] who is on vacation. Andrew Murray took competent charge
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of the boat with William the darkey as deck hand.
[[left margin]] Chapman field [[/left margin]]
First visited the proposed [[red underline]] bombing field on Chapman field. [[/red underline]] - which some mercenaries and [[red underline]] politicians want to take away [[/red underline]] and add other territory thus spoiling the [[red underline]] Tropical Botanical experimental [[/red underline]] station. The Real Estate men and raw business men of Miami enlisting the help of [[red underline]] politicians [[/red underline]] who want to be reelected. - [[strikethrough]] When [[/strikethrough]] 
[[left margin]] Speculators want to destroy it [[/left margin]]
Such people are [[strikethrough] narr [[/strikethrough]] narrow minded enough that this bombing field will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. - When they see an immediate Dollar in view they forget all other considerations - Why should this exceptionally unique bit of land of Tropical U.S. be perverted for this purpose, when there are so many other available places which are now worthless for other purposes. [[red underline]] Fairchild is against it, so am I - so are the men [[/red underline]] who recently have built [[strikethrough]] homes [[/strikethrough]] winter residences [[strikethrough]] and are [[/strikthrough]] in the neighborhood and who have shown how the jungle can be changed in beautiful parks.
There is a long straight channel about 4' draft