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Nov.2. Home all day. Quiet day. I began to realize that at the rates our monthly sales have been going on lately we are selling at the rate of $300.000 which would make a splendid business and give me an excellent income. Evening [[red underline]] Cohoe [[/red underline]] came here for supper and told me some of stockholders are not much impressed with personality of [[red underline]] Mills [[/red underline]] Drove Cohoe to Cortlandt. Stormy night
Nov 3 (Sunday). Home all day. Wrote beginning of my [[red underline]] presidential address on Intellectual property [[/red underline]]
Nov 4. Busy here all morning then went to meet Hasslacher and Dubois to discuss
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project of contract for condensite Co. then afterwards met Swan & May on same subject Both give me tale of woe of how our molding mixtures are inferior to those of [[red underline]] Condensite [[/red underline]] and both seem to take pleasure and exaggerating the importance in some slight defect([[red underline]] leakage [[/red underline]]) which up to now has escaped our attention because it was never brought to our notice. I used some pretty stern language with [[red underline]] May [[/red underline]] who too often takes a standpoint as if 
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everything was wrong and as if there was no hope. No wonder some people do not succeed. Took
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