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had given it to him over the phone! Jake is too unconventional for his own good and he's going to get himself right royally in dutch someday. Rudy tells me Jake caught hell with a capital H from Waller, and indirectly from Andrews about the Short Line Convention speech. And although he was scheduled to participate in the proceedings when the Directors were here in December to see the U.P, Andy said NO and Jake was shunted. It is too bad, as Jake has a lot of energy and initiative, but he's too crude and independent, unwilling to play ball with others.

Rudy told me today that General Motors had taken some traffic away from the Illinois Central lately - reason: Jack Walker talked too much! If that isn't a sweet affair! Trying to force a guy out who's antagonistic to them - as bad as the Federal Communications Commission and Boule Carter!

Took ^[[Doremus]] through the Refrigerator Dept. this afternoon and got quite a thrill out of seeing in action the symbol "More things for more people at less cost." They are running about 10,000 boxes a week now and talking of stepping up to 12000! The sad part of it was seeing several of our draughtsmen working over there - Fleming, Swanberg and the smooth Swiss or Austrian Control man - I forget his name. It must be tough - it would be to me.