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[[image - aerial depiction of the Schenectady Works campus, with printed text "The 38th Anniversary of the Founding of the Schenectady Works of the General Electric Company December, 1886-December, 1924"]]

[[underlined]]To Mother, March 24, 1925:[[/underlined]] I finally got the two rings safely deposited in the furnace the way I wanted them but it was 8:30 p.m. then. I can't see them until Thursday morning because the furnace will not be opened until tomorrow night sometime. Mr. Steenstrup and I are both very anxious to see the results Yesterday he left practically all the preparations to me but stopped in about 5 o'clock. I also took a flying trip to his office about 4:30, so you see the idle days are over. I am really getting quite intimate with him now. Yesterday he surprised me by branching off from our usual engineering conference and saying, "Craton, how old are you?" I said, "Twenty-two." He