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had agreed with his European partners to keep on furnishing the amount of paper we had been ordering on an average during the late period plus a possible 15% increase but not beyond. All this was said in a few words as some [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] fudge reading a sentence 
I had the advantage over Eastman in that I spoke French and German to Steinbach [[strikethrough]] who knew no [[/strikethrough]] and Blanchet who knew no English altho' the men with them spoke English. Eastman only knew English. I expressed my disappointment to all of this arrangement. How we had always been good customers, paying
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promptly. How I a poor young man and havig a family to support after long and painful struggle, after giving up my professor's position in Belgium, had finally succeeded in creating success in a new dept of photography etc., and now was being [[strikethrough]] further rest [[/strikethrough]] restricted in further development. Reminded them of a story of Benjamin Franklin who on being invited by some political aldermen of Philadelphia at a dinner, astonished them when they saw that the moment he was about to take his seat at the table, they found plate [[strikethrough]] before him [[/strikethrough]] of porridge before him. - They scolded the waiter and wanted to