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can handle freight very cheaply.
They have [[underlined]] another factory [[/underlined]] and demonstration plant at [[underlined]] Montreuil [[/underlined]] near Paris where they [[underlined]] make their molding powders and transparent [[/underlined]] material and which is now run by the brother of [[underlined]] Genot. Genot [[/underlined]] when I met in 1923 was discharged after it was found out that he was conspiring with [[underlined]] Chantard their chemist to start [[/underlined]] a competing concern. calling their product [[underlined]] "Milusite" [[/underlined]] (Mille-usages") But they failed as everyone else did in France [[underlined]] since Surcouf lowered prices [[/underlined]] and improved [[strikethrough]] service [[/strikethrough]] service and distribution. [[underlined]] Surcouf [[/underlined]] tells me that young [[underlined]] Genot [[/underlined]] is entirely faithful and trustworthy and has broken off with his brother.
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Arrived back in Paris at 8 P.M. favorably impressed by my visit.  [[underlined]] Bethune Company [[/underlined]] is [[underlined]] certainly a much more desirable corporation than Pinchon & Johnson [[/underlined]] is in Damard.
[[underlined]] Dec. 14. [[/underlined]] At 9 AM at office of [[underlined]] Surcouf [[/underlined]] 14 Rue Rochepine. A set of closed office rooms where [[underlined]] Surcouf thrones [[/underlined]] and once in awhile breaks out to his [[underlined]] trembling subordinates [[/underlined]] as [[strikethrough]] most [[/strikethrough]] many [[underlined]] Frenchmen [[/underlined]] are liable to do.  Sort of safety-valve with much noise and which ^[[to an American]] looks like a violent quarrel [[strikethrough]] to an [[/strikethrough]] but [[underlined]] means little except a display of latin temper. [[/underlined]]
Got a [[underlined]] cable [[/underlined]] from [[underlined]] Celine [[/underlined]] that [[underlined]] Germans have signed [[/underlined]] but I fear she is mistaken. I have cabled in vain to office to get confirmation.  [[underlined]] Surcouf's [[/underlined]] office is [[underlined]] neat [[/underlined]] without being pretentious. He says they will