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[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 150/ [[red underline]] let Lybrand Montgomery [[red underline]] our chartered accountants, attend to our [[red underline]] tax counsel than Hanson firm, [[/red underline]] which is not so well posted on our accounting and has at greater loss of time review and ask information from [[red underline]] Lybrand, Peter Potter [[/red underline]] who is the [[red underline]] guest [[/red underline]] of [[red underline]] Brooksie Baekeland [[/red underline]] is staying with [[red underline]] him in the Scarsdale house [[/red underline]] George B. - Dickie, Brooksie and Peter Potter as guest intend to leave [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] next week to Lake Placid for wintersports. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] expenses [[/vertical note in left margin]] This afternoon with Dick bottled about half of the wines made recently. 10 gals of Niagara. & 15 gals of mixture of late grapes  [[underline]] Dec. 27 [[/underline]] (Sunday). Mild weather Feel very tired
[[underline]] Dec 28 [[/underline]]. [[red underline]] Told Rossi to strike out $20.00 a day rate for travelling of our men. [[/red underline]] It is either too much or too little. Inducement of running up expenses, or to omit them when necessary. - [[red underline]] Better let them itemize expenses as heretofore [[/red underline]] [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Itemize travelling - [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Dec 29 [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Lowe [[/red underline]] came [[red underline]] back from Germany [[/red undelrine]] and gave us interesting report of the [[red underline]] absurd condition Bakelite Gesellschaft [[/red underline]] is in  [[red underline]] He is the first man [[strikethrough]] whom [[/strikethrough]] [[/red underline]] of those whom I sent there [[end page]] [[start page]] \151 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] who really investigated [[/red underline]] the [[red underline]] situation and dared to give them advice to amend their ways. [[/red underline]] - Am glad [[red underline]] Stauss likes him [[/red underline]] and approves of his attitude and advice
[[underline]] Dec 31. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Packing. [[/red underline]] Then at [[red underline]] 3:30 A.M. [[/red underline]] at her request Celine Roll joined me to the Station of Penn. R.R. After delivering my trunk we drove back to the office at about 4 P.M but almost all had left. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Celebration [[/vertical note in left margin]] I found in some of the offices some [[red underline]] empty bottles [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] ditto glasses; [[/red underline]] which showed they had been [[red underline]] celebrating [[/red underline]] the [[red underline]] bonus [[/red underline]] of [[red underline]] about one third million [[/red underline]] of [[red underline]] Dollars [[/red underline]] which we had [[red underline]] allocated to all of [[/red underline]] them in addition to their regular salaries. Everyone from the lowest to the highest participating in this bonus, [[red underline]] except myself [[/red underline]] Feel very happy for it. Showed Celine Roll all departments of our offices [[red underline]] Fine steady girl. [[/red underline]] She is growing [[red underline]] very tall - too tall. [[/red underline]] Dick took her back to Yonkers while I spent a few hours in