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the insurance I do and build a house too.  Maybe someday, if this fair land ever gets back to normal and the Railway Dept. is still in business.  Let us hope.

Had an all morning session in Maurice's office re "doodle bugs" - Andrews had spiked the Mfg. Order for 10 - 23 ton, 150HP units and won't allow but 2 for stock instead of 8, plus a 50 ton 300HP and a 43 ton 300HP.  So Spike and Banell were summoned and asked to upset everything.  And Spike was disgusted.  Maurice blamed Jake for the fiasco because Jake went to Henry Guy to linch about the steeple cab stock locos.  Henry called Andy, and Andy blew up.  So the program was a shambles again.  Maurice says I wont go south for a while because Frank Kroner's wife is badly ill, but will go to Boston to promote doodle bugs [[underlined]] and [[/underlined]] do the B & A report for Alco.  So I guess someone put the heat on him as he wasn't going to let me touch it when Walter approached him a week ago.  When Maurice told me today about the southern trip, I surmised Jake had the southern situation so well in hand that I was out in the cold & I was slightly disappointed but not too much.  However Maurice called me in later to hear Jake's report of his trip and it didn't sound any too creditable - rather helter skelter like Jake usually is.  Later Maurice told me that after the Boston trip, I could go south, when Frank would be out of his personal woods.  And, of yes, I heard Maurice and Jake having a battle royal in there.  Jake wanted to know what [[underlined]] his [[/underlined]] territory was, & why he didn't have any - he worked like hell to get this line going & then got left out in the