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161/ more than ever that [[underlined in red]] Bloomfield must [[/underlined in red]] be under one [[underlined in red]] specified head [[/underlined in red]] for management. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Redman [[/vertical note in left margin]] We concluded that I should go to Canada to meet Redman and tell him what is wanted without causing him any fear that what we intend to do is detrimental to him. The poor man's health has much [[strikethrough]] influences [[/strikethrough]] acted detrimentally to his brain and bearing. Am told at the meeting that his wife is a great drawback to him and causes him considerable expenses by making him supporting financially her own relatives. [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Mrs. Redman [[/vertical note in left margin]] Besides she very much wants to induce him to stay in Canada, which is the land of her birth. All this is a very complicated situation but I am preparing myself for a visit to Redman in Canada, much as I need a rest from voyaging [[underlined in red]] Allan Brown is agitating [[/underlined in red]] all the time the idea of [[underlined]] celebrating [[/underlined]] our [[underlined in red]] 25th year by a big jamboree. [[/underlined in red]] I am against it. - We are not in the same category of companies who want to take every opportunity to advertise themselves to the public, because they [[end page]] [[start page]] 162/ [[left margin vertical in red]] 25th anniversary of Bakelite [[/left margin vertical in red]] sell their products to the ultimate consumer, and resort to boundless advertising. We on the contrary have to sell our materials on the merit of best quality and price. Others can humbug their customers. - We cannot even if we tried it. - We have to deal with engineers and chemists or technically competent people who can easily determine the technical merits of our products as compared to all the humbugging of tooth powders, patent medicines, beauty parlors etc. I would [[underlined in red]] prefer celebrating by raising the salaries of those of our excellent [[/underlined in red]] men who at present [[underlined in red]] are not paid enough. [[/underlined in red]] [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Grinding wheels [[/vertical note in left margin]] George and Rossi left for Niagara Falls to confer with our [[underlined in red]] grinding wheel [[/underlined in red]] customers. October was inaugurated by a [[underlined in red]] violent Hurricane in Florida [[/underlined in red]] which has done much damage and loss of life on some of the keys (Tavernier) and some towns of the West Coast, but little damage to Miami and Coconut Grove [[underlined]] Feb. 6 [[/underlined]] Has been raining for
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changed 'grinding which' to 'grinding wheel'
