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    "ocrText": "UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI\nCOLUMBIA\nDEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY\nFEB 7 1930\nFebruary 5, 1930\nMr. H. H. Barker\nU. S. Radium Corporation\n535 Pearl Street\nNew York City\nDear Howard:\nWe have put on a new man in our cryställizing\nlaboratory to become familiar with the technique and care\nwhich must be taken. He is directly responsible to Dr.\nBreckenridge and Lloyd Thomas. The latter has been at\nwork in the crystallizing laboratory for fully a year\nnow, and has shown himself to be a very reliable man.\nWe hope that this new man, judging by his scholarship\nand performances in laboratory experimentations, will\nprove equally trustworthy and careful. In other words\nwe just wish to tell you that we are just about ready\nto begin operations on the concentrates which we ex-\npect to refine for you.\nSince we shall try to extract the radiothorium\nwhich has accumulated in some of your samples, I hope\nthat you will be kind enough to mark the bottles in which\nmesothorium is present.\nTomorrow I expect to send on to Dr. Moore the\nbook of papers bearing on the Radium-Poisoning cases. I\nhave gone over these papers and have selected certain\npages which seemed to have a direct bearing on the pending\ncase. These pages I have had copied and I shall send on\nto you a complete transcript and I shall also send one\ncopy to Mr. Markley.\nWith you I would like to raise this question:\nWould it not be advisable for you to prepare a brief\nstatement of the principal points involved in the court\ncase? In view of the chance that the case will finally\ngo to the Supreme Court, it seems to me that a complete\nstatement of the facts set down in simple language will\nultimately become the instrument upon which the court\nmust rely for a decision, and I believe that your statement\nwould present the main points at issued, probably more pre-\ncisely and logically than the attorneys' view of the case.\nI am simply making this as a suggestion.\nWith very good wishes, I remain\nYours sincerely,\nHerman Schlundt\nHS/GMA.\nHerman Schlundt."
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