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Then I added: "Fifteen percent is ridiculous! If you said 50% it would sound better but not enough If you allowed us to double our sales that would be worth while discussing; but even then I would not entertain your proposition unless your company guaranteed us this amount of yearly sale and the profits corresponding thereto. But if you did so you might just as well try to buy us out." I concluded by addressing his associates in French and saying: "Gentlemen you have heard Mr. Eastman he seems obdurate. - I came here at great disadvantage to me, and to our enter
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prise. I must go back by the first steamer and must leave you now. They tried to persuade me to stay and discuss longer. Eastman gave no sign of encouragement So [[strikethrough]] we left each other [[/strikethrough]] I left him cold, stern, and thin and severe looking as I had met him a few hours before. The others still tried to induce me by staying a little longer but I went of to rush to my boat, that had to take me [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] back to my work, which I intended to push more vigorously than ever, includig a building for makig films after my process. When I came back to Nepera Park our factory and surroundings were snow white but the plant was