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180 modern [[underlined]] dry plate; [[/underlined]] 2/ The [[underlined]] portable [[/underlined]] Kodak type of apparatus and film holder. 3/ [[underlined]] My process rapid printing, independent of the sun. [[/underlined]] He said that [[underlined]] their statisticians figured that at present 98% of all photographic prints were made after the Velox process even if the papers were sold under various names. Maximilian Toch [[/underlined]] gave personal reminiscences of my earlier days and earlier struggles. Told the story how in 1903 I had [[underlined]] borrowed his evening coat for a social party at Dr. Von Martius house in Berlin,[[/underlined]] etc. he concluded that notwithstanding all my successes I [[underlined]] had not changed - same man same friends same aspirations. Charles Herty described [[/underlined]] how I had created an entirely new industry from its very beginnings of my personal research. Not as in our dye industry a repetition of what the Germans had done before but a [[underlined]] virgin field in which America lead all other nations and where Germans and others followed as pupils. [[/underlined]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 181 Many ^[[Many]] had sent telegrams or letters of congratulations. Dr [[underlined]] Nichols [[/underlined]] absent on account of ill health a [[underlined]] generous letter [[/underlined]] emphasizing importance of my work. Most striking was a long telegram from Dr. [[underlined]] Edward Weston [[/underlined]] lauding my successes to the electrical industry thru my pioneer work. etc. I felt very happy and managed easily to improvise a speech of thanks which came [[strikethrough]] alone and [[/strikethrough]] very easily and which was generously received My main subject was [[underlined]] "Hard boiled business or technologists at the head of Chemical enterprises? [[/underlined]] Also [[underlined]] Research work is my gamble [[/underlined]] that, why I [[underlined]] never have been interested in other gambling stock speculative horse races. It is the noblest gambling any body can undertake [[/underlined]] and it is [[underlined]] our duty to teach our nation that if they want a real national gambling we should make money spent on research our National Lottery system. [[/underlined]]
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I use past tense 'underlined' with a 'd' because that is my understanding from the instructions. It seems a waste of time to edit just to remove the 'd' in 'underlined'. If I review and the transcriber just uses 'underline' I do not add the 'd'