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We had debated whether to go to the dance at all because Bab had a bronchitis attack, but with tickets purchased which represented quite a substantial entertainment outlay for those still-squeezed times, we hated to pass it up. So we had Ann stay with the children and everything was all right. I mention that "The Man" (Rog) was hale and hearty as usual, as well as full of pep and deviltry. But Bab didn't seem to throw this off quite as fast as usual although evidently nothing serious came of it. Unfortunately my diary of 1935 ends at this point with the comment that such weather as we'd been having had been enough to ruin anyone's resistance, with 3.2 hours of sunshine out of a possible 170 up to that point in December.

The very last entry says there was a poker game at Whitey Wilson's the night of the 21st attended by the host, Gouldthorpe, Perkinson, Lynch, "Free" Truesdale (of Hammermill), Kearns and I--and that I lost 69¢.

I realize this is a very skimpy account of our domestic life for 1935 but I think I've milked the available material for just about all there is in it. As I look back now, I'm desperately sorry that I failed to keep up my diary even on a minimal basis. But I didn't and that's that. I just wonder if actually it is all dimly recorded somewhere in my mind but I don't have a sensitive enough detection apparatus to bring it out.

MY GE WORK

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1935 was a busy year for me in my work primarily because of three major jobs:

1) Electrical equipment for Boston & Maine car 1140 built by St. Louis Car Co. using two Ingersoll-Rand 400 hp engines.

2) 1,800 hp diesel-electric locomotive 9200 for Illinois Central using two Ingersoll-Rand 900 hp engines and built at Erie.

3) 2,000 hp diesel-electric locomotive 9201 for Illinois Central using one Busch-Sulzer V-10 engine and built at Erie.

I handled all three of these jobs. The B & M car came first followed by the orders for the two locomotives, which, although called "twins", were radically different mechanically and equipmentwise. The Busch-Sulzer locomotive was the most powerful ever built up to that time and in spite of its glowing promise, proved a failure. This is an interesting story which comes to its climax in 1936.