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country for making political capital and buying votes.
Letter of George says [[underlined in red]] Dillon [[/underlined in red]] will make good intermediary [[underlined in red]] because Barret and Union Carbide [[/underlined in red]] men dread that he [[underlined in red]] might swing [[underlined in red]] us over to Dupont and Dillon explained that
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if Union Carbide loses [[/underlined in red]]
their best customer of [[underlined in red]] Methanol [[/underlined in red]] they cannot cover their general expenses in this department. 
[[underlined in red]] Dillon estimates that our business is worth 400000 shares of Union Carbide. [[/underlined in red]]
[[underlined]] March 26 [[/underlined]] Cabled to [[underlined in red]] Bakelite Gesellschaft [[/underlined in red]] Berlin that Sanford Brown is needed here but if they will postpone
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the annual meeting until latter part of May, will go myself, if not will it be agreeable to them to let us be represented by Perkins of London?
Celine tells me my [[underlined in red]] present income [[/underlined in red]] from the stocks left to my account (outside Bakelite) is only [[underlined in red]] $31000 [[/underlined in red]] annually. Hers I believe are a little more. Had some rain last night. Good! [[strikethrough]] He. [[/strikethrough]] Feverish hurry in [[underlined in red]] writing a letter of closely written 4 large pages arriving 
[[left margin in red]] Sanford Brown needs money! [[/left margin in red]]
Sanford Browns arguments where he still insists that we should pay the preferred dividend on April 1 [[/underlined in red]] and then notify the stockholders that the next will probably not be paid. Showed [[underlined in red]] him the absurdity [[/underlined in red]] and danger of it and how