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I have advanced the money as a loan to [[underlined in red]] Holmgren [[/underlined in red]] as a reward for his faithful and efficient services in Bakelite corporation.
[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Fairchilds [[/left margin]] 
[[underlined]] Aug 1. [[/underlined]] 1934. A pleasant day with the [[underlined in red]] Fairchilds at Snug Rock. [[/underlined in red]] Excellent weather. Afternoon took them by Ferry to the Palisades drove to Nyack, thence back along Palisade road and took supper at a restaurant over the Palisade [[strikethrough]] E [[/strikethrough]] edge at Fort Lee. All back at dusk.
[[underlined]] Aug 2. [[/underlined]] ^[[The]] Fairchilds left this morning for Watch Hill.
[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Union Carbide White [[/left margin]]
[[underlined]] Aug 3. [[/underlined]] George tells me [[underlined in red]] White of Union Carbide [[/red underline]] has asked for [[red underline]] another interview [[/red underline]] this morning. Later in afternoon Rossi tells me that [[red underline]] White has asked postpone further negotiations until political and business situations seem [[strikethrough]] less [[/strikethrough]] more settled. Probably until after the November election. [[/underlined in red]]
[[vertical notation in red and underlined]] Dr. Heyl [[/left margin]]
[[underlined in red]] Dr Heyl [[/underlined in red]] one of the head chemists & a superintendent of Mfg of Bakelite Gesellschaft arrived here at noon for studying our latest methods and developments. Found him in the office of Rossi who has so many things to attend to this afternoon. So [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] took [[underlined in red]] Heyl to Chemists Club [[/underlined in red]] for a glass of beer and showed
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him N.Y Central Station building
[[underlined]] Aug. 4. [[/underlined]] Pleasantly cool, - here in Yonkers.
[[double underlined]] Sunday [[double underlined]] (Aug 5). 
[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Molinari & wife [[/left margin]]
[[red underlined]] Vittorio Molinari [[/red underlined]] arrived here this morning with his wife in their motor car from Bound Brook, remained for luncheon and left later in afternoon on his trip to the Blue Mountain region then Canada then a few days at the camp til the end of his vacation. He [[red underlined]] seemed very happy [[/red underlined]] and enjoying it all. His wife does not seem quite so enthusiastic and is not yet entirely acclimatised to this country. Nevertheless she has learned enough English to keep up a conversation. - Beautiful weather.
[[underlined]] Aug 6, [[/underlined]] 1934.  Went to library of Chemists Club to read more about [[red underline]] Robert Hare [[/red underline]] of whom intend to send portrait to la [[red underline]] Maison de Chimie [[/red underline]] as U.S. representative of early chemists. Am considering making a round trip of some of the more distant [[red underline]] West Indies [[/red underline]] with one of the passenger boats. 
Aug 7. [[red underlined]]  Dr. [[Ivy?]] Olen [[/red underlined]] came back from [[red underlined]] Freiburg [[/red underlined]] Baden where he studied under [[red underline]] Staudinger. He says did not have much occasion to learn more on the subject of colloids as related to Bakelite. Wrote [[red underline]] Gerard [[/red underline]] that I propose to send copy of Portrait of [[red underline]] Hare instead of Priestley. [[/red underline]] giving him the reason and describing work