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175/ [[red underlined]] increase of cost of living and travelling due to [[/red underlined]] the lowering of [[red underlined]] the gold value of the Dollar. [[/red underlined]] England alone seems prosperous, and [[strikethrough]] Am [[/strikethrough]] the [[red underlined]] expensive American hotels in London are now filled with English men who formerly shunned them on account of cost. [[/red underlined]] [[left margin in red]] Cyanamid Co [[/left margin in red]] We then spoke about [[red underlined]] Cyanamide Co [[/red underlined]] affairs and more particularly [[red underlined]] Urea plastics situation, [[/red underlined]] and the desirability of Bakelite and [[red underlined]] Cyanamid Co coming closer [[/red underlined]] together. He thinks that Childs and his men in the Urea department are unsuited and could easily be eliminated if we so desired in case we come to own arrangement. Dr. [[red underlined]] Ripper [[/red underlined]] is again with them. [[left margin in red]] Carleton Ellis [[/left margin in red]] They had asked [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]] him last year to arrive here about this period, as they thought that their patent suit with I.C. and [[red underlined]] Carleton Ellis [[/red underlined]] would now be going on. But [[red underlined]] new delays [[/red underlined]] have arisen and it looks now as if [[red underlined]] it may be several years [[/red underlined]] before a decision will be reached. [[red underlined]] There is no doubt that he desires a union of Bakelite with Beetle [[/red underlined]] or with Cyanamid. I told him our point of view and the compli- [[end page]] [[start page]] 176/ cations of [[red underlined]] marrying into [[strikethrough]] law suits [[/strikethrough]] patent suits [[/red underlined]] etc. altho' I am [[overwritten]] now [[/overwritten]] not opposed against the idea if it can be carried out satisfactorily to both parties George B told me that he has been approached by the men of [[red underlined]] Dow Chemical [[/red underlined]] for merging both companies. - Whitaker stayed to after 5.P.M. [[underlined]] Sept 18. [[/underlined]] Sent for portrait of [[red underlined]] Robert Hare for "Maison de la Chimie" [[/red underlined]] On arriving here I find it is not yet dry or at least the varnish is not Wrote a long letter urging Gordon Brown etc. to get a meeting among some of our men and some laminators, to discuss best means for making [[red underlined]] incombustible steel ship partitions [[/red underlined]] covered on both sides with laminated or laminated on [[red underlined]] a layer of asbestos paper interposed [[/red underlined]] between steel and laminated. [[left margin in red]] Various names of Bakelite = 249 !! [[/left margin in red]] We have called from our sister companies a list of trade-names used [[strikethorugh]] in diff [[/strikethrough]] for phenoplastics in various countries by different firms producing phenoplastics. In Germany no less than 159 France and Belgium 17 Great Britain 47 Italy 5 Switzerland 9 Austria etc 11 [[a bracket to the right and containing the above column of numbers point to the following note:]] 249 not counting U.S. [[/bracket and note]]
