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his stock and only now the remainder from the money which he received after Eastman had bought us out.
Things went along rapidly and by summer our factory was nearly complete and I was working courageously for the future, prepared for more fights with the Eastman Co. Until one day the representatives from the paper makers in Europe, (I have forgotten whether it was Pittman or Herman Lips) came to see me to tell that they had persuaded Eastman to buy us out for cash if our price were not too high. - I was dumfounded. - They told me
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they had persuaded the Eastman men to do this [[strikethrough]] because [[/strikethrough]] and in order to impress them they had told them that if they did not supply us the paper, I would leave no stone unturned to obtain paper elsewhere or make it myself thus disturbing their neat little monopoly of the Société General. Eastman had reluctantly consented [[strikethrough]] After [[strikethrough]] I had become the slave of my work and received no pay for salary and had had to borrow every year about 2000$ to $3000 [[?]] with interest from Jacobi and he was counting interest for the money he had advanced to our company Nepera Chemical Co, with