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second day saying to myself, “This is very agreeable.” I think a private organization of some sort was taking care of it. There were two very interesting employers who took the lead in it. One was a man who owned a great packing house and factory in Rotterdam and had the first modernistic building I had ever seen, which had been built of the most extreme type. He insisted on our going to see it and our seeing not only his factory, but his own house, which was built along the same lines. He packed tea, coffee and cocoa. Of course the actual materials were imported. Then they were ground or prepared and packed for sale and sold. He was the prime mover.

They made the most lovely conference in a beautiful building. One of the things that struck me as new in conferences, but a good idea was that eleven o'clock in the morning the conference broke up for ten minutes and we all went out into the lobby where the most delicious coffee was served, together with some kind of little snacks. Then we went back and went on. It was the same thing in the afternoon. In the afternoon they added to coffee, cocoa and tea. You could have your choice. It was a very delightful social gathering.

However, as I look back on it, I don't see anything





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