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They extract every last nickel they can from the mfr. on complaints. And apparently this man Gill is the super-horsetrader who can outfox and outgyp anyone he comes up against. "Mac" says the only GE man who can get along with him is a certain Hibbard in the Charlotte Office, who simply tells him to go to hell on occasion when he knows he's right and finally won Gill's respect; Hibbard is reputed to have simply walked off the job on occasion and told Gill where to go. That's evidently his language.

Maurice made his peace with Spike today and the "doodle bugs" are moving again, after Spike had threatened to "hold up every god damn thing." In spite of all the vituperation yesterday, Maurice isn't mad at Spike today. That's one thing about Maurice - he can give it [[underlined]] and [[/underlined]] take it with no hard feelings afterward.

Finally presented our "fact history" of the New Haven D & E development to "Cash" and Walter Harris, signed by George Lee, Bob Walsh and me. And after a little finagling, I even got Maurice to be satisfied with it. Let us devoutly pray, this is the end of it!

Erie, Pa.,
Wednesday, Nov. 2, '38.
Maurice handed me a new proposition yesterday from Kittredge in Philadelphia, asking for a diesel locomotive to haul the Pennsy's new rail grinding trains - 4 of them. My first reaction was to want to get out of doing it - give it to Alco, etc. But I dug into it and before I got through, I had the satisfaction of finding it probably could be 45 tons, right up our alley, and I really got quite a kick out of it. Which all goes to prove that the proper attitude to take on any job is to do one's best on it regardless of what it is, and most jobs will prove

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