Chapter 35

“According to authentic price information which we have secured, Fleischmann have been selling and offering Vitamin D at slightly less than $1.00 per 1,000,000 Steenbock Rat Units. This is what influenced my suggested price of $1.00 to Lever Brothers and I was very much surprised when you informed me that Fleischmann was not in a position to furnish irradiated ergosterol. If this were true, I apparently had gone too low on our initial price in view of the fact that we were the exclusive source of supply.” The profi…