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Erie, Pa.
Tuesday, May 9, 1939.
Had quite a satisfactory day at the office for the first time in quite a while. My Canadian National locomotive preliminary proposition is shaping up well and is giving me a lot of satisfaction. Things seem to be warming up over in Boston on the small locomotives for B&M. Goggin needing more copies of my report, "Carl" gave me a request for information for Amtorg on some 6000 volt DC locomotives for Russia which will be interesting. The Church job looks interesting and I have the regenerative braking AIEE paper to do-another interesting assignment. Plus miscellaneous small jobs.

Maurie blew in today, grabbed some dope on the steam-electric proportions for the Southern Pacific and blew out again to catch the midnight plane at Cleveland for the coast to discuss the S.P. job which is supposed to be hot.

"Perk" told me a strange story from Rudy. Rudy met "Whitey" Wilson in the hall and Whitey said something like this: "I think it would work better if one man in your section handled all engine builders and locomotive builders the way we do in my section. I think [[underlined]] I'm [[/underlined]] going to have your set-up changed to do it that way." The implications in that "Whitey" is or soon will be senior to Maurice. Already he is head of the Management Committee over the entire transportation line but this sounded like something more.