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said, "Jus' think, Craton, you aren't even half as old as I am." To this, I replied, "Yes, but you have a long way to go yet." Then he said, "I wish I was twenty-two. You know, the time goes faster and faster as you get older. When I was a kid, it seemed an awful long time for Christmas to come, but now -- why Christmas comes every once in a while." Our conversation was interrupted just then, so I don't know how far he would have gone on. Today, I was rather pleased because I had drawn up a rotor of my own design just the way he himself had decided it ought to be made before he came in to see me.

[[image - clipping, photo illustration of the largest generator in the world. Appears to be about fifty feet in diameter and thirty feet tall.  Two men lower left for scale, two more men standing in a gallery on top of the machine.  Handwriten note: "The largest generator in the world (arrow to machine) made here".]]

[[underlined]] March 22, 1925, to Willie: [[/underlined]] He (?) mentioned the new 1200 pound pressure steam turbine for the Weymouth Station of the Boston Edison Company and I was able to tell him that [[underlined]] we [[/underlined]] made the rotor for that in [[underlined]] our [[/underlined]] shop, employing the hydrogen brazing process for the making of the bucket wheels. And so it [[underlined]] is [[/underlined]] a satisfaction to know you are actually working on things that the whole engineering world is watching.

[[underlined]] To Mother, March 27, 1925: [[/underlined]] You asked how the jobs looked when they came out of the furnace so I guess a little sketch will show best:

[[image - colored three dimensional sketch of trapezoidal blocks arranged into five circular layers (six projections, three every other layer, opposite each other on the outside) forming a cylinder, yellow on the outside, red interior]]

Transcription Notes:
I changed "largest generator in the word" to "largest generator in the world"--thomasc