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[[margin]] quick molding solved since powder molding matures [[/margin]]

[[underlined]] any arrangements for making a commercial business out of all this. 
In the meantime I am precluded from doing much as long as my American and foreign patents are not allowed.  This delay should be used to the best advantage to do as much work as possible, yet without going in heavy expenses.
Now that I have solved the problem of quick molding I feel sure that Bakalite can be used on its merits for quite a number of useful purposes and I feel no longer restrained from making some necessary expenses.  Thurlow altho' consciencious and thorough is very slow and often [[/underlined]]
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[[margin]] Thurlow [[/margin]]
[[underlined]] clings stubbornly to his own ideas and many a time have I been compelled to make some experiments in which he did not believe and which afterwards procured me the key for solving a problem.
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[[bracket]] In fact the whole history of the development of Bakalite in its different phases has been the history of [[underlined]] looking at matters from my own standpoint. [[/bracket]]
Thurlow had a chance of discover Bakalite ever since he started studying condensation products of phenol and formaldehyde and missed it over and over again because he looked at the matter too much from a one sided standpoint  [[/underlined]] He wanted soluble products.