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[[left margin in red]] 1 1/2 million Dollars [[/left margin]]
Received answer from Horn. Our [[red underline]] available cash and quick assets from [[/red underline]] ^[[present]] market of our securities after [[red underline]] deduction [[/red underline]] of pledged payments and of our [[red underline]] $500000 garanty of the loan to English Bakelite [[/red underline]] has melted down to [[red underline]] barely 1 1/2 million Dollars [[/red underline]] So wired again and wrote to Directors to [[red underline]] urge not to spend $90000 at [[/red underline]] this time for [[red underline]] dividend of Preferred [[/red underline]] Papers announce [[red underline]] George Eastman committed suicide, [[/red underline]] leaving a letter to her friends: [[red underline]] "My work is done. - Why wait?" [[/red underline]] Fill pages comment. The man was [[red underline]] tired of life [[/red underline]] Had no family and more money he knew what 
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to do with. Papers contained whole columns about his [[strikethrough]] genera [[/strikethrough]] donations and generosity towards his chemists and engineers. - [[red underline]] This was deserved as far as his later years are concerned. In his earlier business years he had scant respect for chemists or engineers [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] paid the [[/strikethrough]] had [[strikethrough]] mus [[/strikethrough]] very few in his employ. - Lawyers and litigation were always well paid then. He paid ^[[Mr.]] House ^[[chemist]] whom I trained for Velox 2100$ [[underline]] a year [[/underline]] and when [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[our]] factory was moved to Rochester House was again paid his former salary of [[red underline]] $1800 under the remark that life was less expensive in Rochester than in Yonkers [[/red underline]] This was in 1901. 
He lost his best men [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]]