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tricky way that they could disappear or reduce their responsibilities so as to leave us without redress. that altho' they said to their customers and co-infringers that they were willing to garantee any results of suits we might bring against them, this garantee was made in generalizations always pointing to Karpen Brothers as their backers, yet in the mean time there was nothing attachable to back their garantees. I asked Karpen whether he controled Formica he said no then afterwards admitted he controled them indirectly etc. I told him that their methods of conducting business had not been of the same sort of those of G.B. Co
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or Condensite, two companies which had well recorded substantial assets, and whose business statements the Dunn or Bradstreet showed them to be directly financially responsible instead of having to refer to some financial backer of undetermined connection of [[strikethrough]] fin [[/strikethrough]] liabilities. I told him that I was speaking frankly and sincerely and that anything I said was not directed at him personally but at those who had conducted the affairs of Redmonal Co. That like many business men who are not acquainted with the details of the technical facts of the patent and industrial situation he had [[strikethrough]] as I have every q [[/strikethrough]] received