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AMERICAN STRUCTURAL PRODUCTS COMPANY GENERAL OFFICES TOLEDO 1. OHIO *u*)du*y or OWENS * ILUNOIS GLASS COMPANY Dr. Arthur J. Vorvralo, Director, The Saranac Laboratory of the Erfrard L. Trudeau Foundation. Saranac Lake, Her York. Larch v. } 151P Lear Lr. Vorwald: There has been some unavoidable delay ir. ry reply in to your letter of Larch 3rd in which you ask that r* extend cur coT2ri.tr.ent for two years free? Kay 1, 15LS, a*. th* ra*,t of C7,CC0.C0 per year. Frankly, rcy reascr. for confining the definite ccrriir.er.t tc one year is ay lack of confidence in the way this entire transaction has been handled. Te first submitted tc y:ur laboratories this problea on February 12, 1913* By the end cf our proposed extension of one year, you will have had the assirnwnt six years and will have beer, paid approximate!) $20,COO.o5. My original conversation with Cr. Gardner certainly did not give se any reason to expect that it was a seven-year dob to evaluate this one material. It seems to ae that we sight reasonably expect to have had in five years from the time we gave your laboratories this project son* definite report that would be f value to us. After sone hesitation, it was vy Judgement tc extend the assignaent for one year and review its status at that time. Please understand that I am not presuming tc le competent to judge the ease cr difficulty of work of this kind, but we set out in February 1913 to detentine the status of this material, and the handling ox~it has been quite unsatisfactory. U.E.Boeesjjg cc - Mr. W. G. Haaard s o "C- "