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he has improved since then 
[[underline]] Aug 25. Sunday. [[/underline]] Here all day indexing my notes - Beautiful day undisturbed. 
[[underline]] Aug 26. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Brannon [[/red underline]] one of our younger chemists in the casting department of our Bound Brook works gave a very interesting report about a new [[red underline]] cast material [[/red underline]] from formaldehyde & phenol and Borate of glycerine. Colorless and transparent. It can also be molded in the press [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] or even extrusion. 
[[underline]] Aug 27. [[/underline]] Drove to Bloomfield. Conference there with Dr. Schmidt. [[strikethrough]] Sanford Brown tells me that use of it is rapidly an [[/strikethrough]] about Catalin patent. A. Wieth, Shannon Dr. Schmidt and myself discussed the different points of prior art in relation to Austrian patent. [[red underline]] Shannon [[/red underline]] showed some [[red underline]] transparent [/red underline]] buttons molded in the press and made by Brannon use glycerol borate. [[red underline]] Peakes [[/red underline]] showed me the simple process by which the A. for Urea is produced 
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] Urea products [[/vertical note in left margin]] Also additional test samples made from the [[red underline]] Urea [[/red underline]] material which he and [[red underline]] Skow [[/red underline]] have succeeded in producing and which stand better tests and more latitude in molding than those of our competitors. They are very desirous of going ahead and wonder why we are waiting. 
[[red underline]] Fulton [[/red underline]] working in their department made some time ago some colorless cubes with objects imbedded therein, as clear and colorless as best glass, and which were obtained by slow hardening. The are kept now under observation under ordinary room conditions 
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and thus far show no faults. Back in Yonkers about 5 P.M. 
[[underline]] Aug 28. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Nielsen [[/red underline]] has ordered copy of [[red underline]] testimony in Catalin [[/red underline]] Patent case [[underline]] Aug 29. [[/underline]] Left here 8:15 A.M for Bound Brook. Again very beautiful weather. Took us about 2 hr to reach there over new highway. [[red underline]] Allan Brown [[/red underline]] not there and [[red underline]] Lowe is in our camp. Shannon in charge. [[/red underline]] 
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] Shannon [[/vertical note in left margin]] Most of the time taken up in conference between myself Shannon, Ellingwood and Brannon. The latter explained his process and showed his samples. [[red underline]] Brannon [[/red underline]] makes an excellent [[strikethrough]] exp [[/strikethrough]] impression. Quiet, well informed and a good personality with good manner in speech and behavior. Looks rather pale as if [[strikethrough]] anemic [[/strikethrough]] anemic. His salary ought to be raised. Suggested the use of mixtures of formaldehyde with other aldehydes, such as acetaldehyde paraldehyde, - with formaldehyde or paraform, also benzaldehyde. 
[[vertical note in left margin in red, undelined]] Brannon [[/vertical note in left margin in red, underlined]] 
Suggested also the use of other glycerol esthers [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] instead of glycerol borates and the dialkyl glycerols try glycerol formate. [[red underline]] Formic acid being the lowest molecular weight [[/red underline]] organic acid and very strong acid in comparison of maleic or phtalic used heretofore. [[strikethrough]] Visited also. Bender is in San Francisco at A.C.S. meeting [[/strikethrough]] 
[[red underline]] Brannon [[/red underline]] uses 1⅛ mole formald for 1 mole phenol in his process but 2 mol. formaldehyde gives somewhat better light resistance. Left there at about [[strikethrough]] P[[/strikethrough]] 3 P.M. and arrived Snug Rock at about 5 P.M Beautiful weather. Cheerful landscape along new Highway Everywhere watermelons and fruit for sale