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stock. - New visits from the agents wondering why our purchases had dropped lately altho' we seemed to be busy day and night I even let them visit the building where we stored our American paper, but they did not recognise it because the long wooden boxes in which is was shipped from the Berkshires were the very empty containers in which the [[strikethrough]] imported [[/strikethrough]] paper imported from Europe was sent to us and bearing [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] in big letters. "Ausfuhrgut" or " Blanchet Kléber Frères" etc none of our employes knew where our paper came from or [[strikethrough]] whether it was from [[/strikethrough]] and was led to believe that it all
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was shipped from Europe and delivered by train right at our factory trestle. If Eastman had found out at that time that we were using American paper, he would, with his crushingly well organised publicity have advertised the fact that our paper we made from "cheap unreliable home made paper" while his was the best imported etc. Hence all the precautions
Our rapidly increased trade worried Eastman as he himself told me later and I believe it [[strikethrough]] still [[/strikethrough]] worried just as much the paper manufacturers in Europe. They urged Eastman to buy us out. But Eastman, guided by