P. T. Barnum：Struggles and Triumphs, Additional Excerpt 390

The arrangements of the Annihilator Company with Mr. Phillips, the inventor, predicated all payments which he was to receive on _bona fide_ sales which we should actually make; therefore he really received nothing, and the entire losses of the American Company, which were merely for advertising and the expense of trying the experiments, hire of an office, etc., amounted to nearly $30,000, of which my portion was less than $10,000.

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