1674-61 Carl Fisher Nair
PRESSE'D1STEEL TANK COMPANY
) Milwaukee , Wis . , April 29, 1921 .
• Dear Carl : -
I have just read in a Milwaukee paper
of the wonderful things you are accomplishing and
the big success and happiness you have gained
through life .
My thoughts' run back to the time in
1904 when you and Allison came to see me in Dayton .
about the little old acetylene . light tank . Had I
only allowed my mind. to keep in accord with yours
my'..present lot might have been different . I might
have been Comfortable now, even rich perhaps , as
no doubt ,' many of your more recent associates have
become . ' I have had many original plans and devices ,
but no one to put them over to success .
You• mayknow that I was one of the first
to volunteer for officers ' training in 1917, and
received appointment as Captain :in Gas Warfare Ordnance ,
served, and am still in the Officers ' Reserve .
I have pep , strength, and originality .
I know I could fit in somewhere in your organization .
Could you change the words somewhat in that rather
depressing poem "Opportunity", and say that Opportunity
may knock more than once at a man ' s door .
When it is the wish of a big and generous
friend, I will be glad to hear from you. Presume you
will , no doubt , be coming north soon .
Your old Associ e ,
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i. J ,/ +.. by dear AV91'y 2
rI 1 have yours of: the 29th : . :,There isn't a-_
� '.: , ..ohanee:that clan do anything_ or�ycnu because I haven't
I fl' 1 confidence in you. )ou destroyed.,that_confidence,a long
c, ,, :time,•ago_.. :`'.You rust-realize now that the Prest-0•-Lite 'o.
` • , lost a great-tri million dollart:as a,result;of-lack of
l your on-operation - and I just ars/mot1 find it within -R
-, _. •. . , res elf:t&feel;.that I:have anything-,you could handle 1,
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Some of,�these,,d s, however, something might 1
`,. ••; turn up: that. :I Oould turn over" to you-oto:attend:,to yourself, a
anai•should that time +sore,• I will, take •the �aatter -up i�ith you.
,Duet nova I:am out of all meah� nidal work s s only Interested i
in real estate development.
Yours very traly,
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