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36/ Wrote to George a long letter concerning his idea of changing our [[underlined in red]] Bakelite Pfd [[/underlined in red]] stock from [[left margin in blue]] circled X [[/left margin in blue]] [[underlined]] cumulative [[/underlined]] preferred, [[underlined in red]] to noncumulative [[/underlined in red]] preferred but dividends only to be paid if and when earned. 
Am sorry to hear that [[underlined in red]] Johnson and Johnson refusing to give a license for the use of flexible Bakelite coating for surgical tape to one of their competitors [[/underlined in red]]
[[left margin vertical in red]] Johnson & Johnson [[/left margin vertical in red]]
The latter came out with [[underlined]] colorles [[/underlined]] [[underlined in red]] Cellulose acetate [[/underlined in red]] backing, and now J & J. dropped Bakelite on their "Dry Bak" [[underlined]] and are [[/underlined]] using cellulose acetate themselves!
[[underline]] March 30 [[/underlined]] Wrote to George that [[underlined in red]] no one [[/underlined in red]] of us should follow request of [[underlined in red]] Strauss to go to Europe. Their [[underlined in red]] place is her e[[/underlined in red]] Strauss wants very much Sanford Brown to go and [[underlined in red]] use him as a rubber stamp [[/underlined in red]] for his own purposes. [[underlined in red]] our men have made enough mistakes in Europe in the [[/underlined in red]] past
[[underlined]] Sunday [[/underlined]] March 31. Kept on putting finishing touches to my paper on Bakelite for the evening Tercentennial meeting.
Rachel advises us that on April 1 
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she enters her new boarding house: [[underlined in red]] Pension Sophie Henriette [[/underlined in red]] 18 Rue de Suisse. Brussels
[[underlined]] April 1. [[/underlined]] Still no rain except a short drizzle of a few minutes last night. [[underlined in red]] This dryness [[/underlined in red]] has kept up now for [[underlined in red]] about 3 1/2 months. [[/underlined in red]] In other parts of the [[underlined in red]] South, near the Mississipi valley [[underlined in red]] drenching rains are causing floods. In [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] the Western States, dust clouds caused by the winds lifting the fertile topsoil, [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethroughh]] cause much annoyance and trouble by removing their fertile part of the soil
Got finally my place assigned for presentation of my paper at the coming meeting of A.C.S.
Wrote letter to Strauss. repeating again that this year we cannot afford to send any one of us to his meeting because they are all needed so much here
All day assiduous[[guess]] by writing letters.
[[underlined]] April 2 [[/underlined]] Wrote Strauss to inquire how [[underlined in red]] Surcouf [[/underlined in red]] and [[/underlined in red]] La Bakelite [[/underlined in red]] are getting along
This noon joined the Civic Club (Homekeepers Club) after their luncheon to listen to [[underlined in red]] Prof. Walker [[/underlined in red]] - chemistry of Miami University. He talked

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Dr Adolf Stauss