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my composite cardboard patent lies in its narrowness and it would be dangerous to stretch the meaning of composite cardboard to include composite canvass.  That if we refuse to sell to G.E. Co they will simply go to Condensite Co which is our licensee or worse still to Redmanol. That formerly we had refused to sell bakelite to one of the Westinghouse former employees, O'Connor and that since that time he had become a serious hindrance by buying infringing material from [[red underline]] Redmanol [[/red underline]].  That a similar situation had arisen with Fibrex which was operated by Frederick another of their former men.  That in the G.E. Co some of the men had been and were hostile to bakelite, others had
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always been very friendly for [[red underline]] instance the men [[/red underline]] of the Lynn plant.  That the same conditions existed in the Westinghouse Co. same men as for instance himself (Terry) and others were friendly and we appreciated this and would go as much as possible out of our way to please them whenever there was a possibility of doing so.  But that others had been and were decidedly unfriendly. That for instance there was one man who not so long ago had written a letter to us that the trade had a rather low opinion of the bakelite patents but that he had failed to mention that he himself had expressed himself very disparagingly about the value of our patents and that I considered such action a case of bad faith and therefore did not want to meet that