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[[red line along left margin]] [[underlined]] yet allowed. Baskerville [[/underlined]] too said some very nice things. Then came [[underlined]] Sperry [[/underlined]] who said that this whole
matter interesting as it might be from a chemical standpoint much more interesting from an engineering standpoint and he wanted an
engineer to express ^ [[these thoughts]] etc.Then came [[underlined]] Takamine who said that his plant had been named the  ^[[Island]] [[?]] of Lacquer. - that much Japanese lacquer had been made in Germany. That [[underlined]] Bakelite [[/underlined]] changed all this and [[underlined]] becomes our real competitor.  [[/underlined]] Yet congratulated and
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thanked me because it was a "square deal" Had taken samples to Japan and knew it was a competitor. But that what had happened in California [[^red X]] was not a square deal. Toch replied that he knew that his Japanese pronunciation was not so perfect as that of
Takamine and in speaking about lacquer he felt he was at a disadvantage before a Jap. Yet he wanted to assure Dr.Takamine
that the whole West Coast of U.S. numbered barely 2 million and that [[/red line along left margin]] there were 72 million
[[vertical text in left margin]] Exclusion act of Japanese [[/vertical text in left margin]]
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