Remember how we talked about bleaching bills? It was a possible solution, and they tried it countless times with $1 bills to keep costs down. The idea was simple: turn a $1 bill into a blank piece of paper, then print whatever you want on it. But, as expected, there was always an invisible trace, a faint hint of the original design. It never came out completely blank. And that's when Baldwin had a crazy idea. What if they cut the bills in half? Not lengthwise, not widthwise, but through the thickness. The goal was to create two thinner bills: one with the front and nothing in the middle, and the other with the middle and the back. Because they'd be thinner, they'd be much easier to bleach. Then, all they'd have to do is glue them back together and print whatever they wanted on top. Arthur thought it was impossible, that others had surely tried it. But Baldwin insisted he had a way. He explained his idea, showed Arthur, and incredibly, Baldwin managed to cut a bill in half through its thickness, creating two ultra-thin, undamaged halves.