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Well," he said, " I did imt say thai. All I can tell yoii is 1 hat you nii^'lil to sell." * ♦ ♦ I said," I don't want to he drixcn out (d' husiiicss and 1 don't want to lose my husincss. T^nt it* I have li'ot to soil and you say I have i;-ot no alt('rnati\ (' at all — T suppose I have got to sell. That is all." " N(>\v," he said, soil, you arc ,<;-('ttin<; sonic sense/' 1 said, I have been infoiined by other people whose plants you have purchased about what you are paying, and in my opinion they are ridiculously low figures for a plant — for the money that some of them were earning. Now, T would not want to let go at all, even under this pressure, without I got at least $150,000." ^^Now," he said, ^^you are all f right, you are traveling on the right road there; you are a little bit ofl the figures, but as long as you realize it to-day — and now is the time — why, on the question of price, I will call in the big chief." He said, " That is Mr. J. J. Kennedy. You know that he is an officer in the General Film Co., he is an officer in the Moving Picture Patents Co., he is an officer in the Biograph Co., he is a leading spirit in this entire thing, and this is a part of his brain; this is his ' child,' as he calls it, and I will let him talk to you and see how much he wants to pay for it." And he called the big chief in.
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^Ir. Kennedy entered into the room where I was sitting with Mr. AYaters, and .Mr. Kennedy said, am pleased to see you in our
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