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Such a condition of affairs would not exist in the States.  A large works like this after 5 
years would have some kind of trolley or train connection.
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Arriving at hotel found letter [[underline]] Hecht [[/underline]] asking me to meet [[underline]] Segall [[/underline]] and Dr. Mosher of Berlin [[underline]] Handelshammer Gesellschaft [[/underline]] at 3 P.M.  So hurried thru lunch Long conference at the former bank from 3PM to 5PM  Big bank building very imposing in Behrenstrasse.  This is one of the principal german banks.  Bancks Rütgers.
Went over whole contract point by point.  Many new points raised and Segal tried to reduce my 1/3 share in case earnings were lower than a certain amount
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But I used such arguments that he had to desist.  [[underline]] During all this discussion it occured to me that I had made a mistake by starting all these negotiations before patents were out and before I had made enough progress in the U.S.[[/underline]]  If all this was settled which would only take a few months longer my whole case would stand much clearer.  I fear that the next 3 months will be used to [[strikethrough]] pluck [[/strikethrough]] pluck down my invention like a fresh hatched chicken until it looks like thirty cents  [[underline]] Weger [[/underline]] nor [[underline]] Senger  [[/underline]] may be good chemists but they certainly [[underline]] do not look to me like men who are going to arouse big enthusiasm for Bakelite by looking at the broad business [[/underline]]
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