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long dark hairs in the washbowl, all of which Blakeslee took in when he came in last night. This morning he casually remarked to Joe, "I see you had a little party in the room last night. And I see it was a [[underlined]] stag [[/underlined]] party too!" But apparently, being from New Orleans, he was neither shocked nor annoyed and all was well.

The program today was put on by Schenectady Works and was very interesting, and like all so far, very inspiring, giving one full confidence the Company is not slipping, is still the greatest electrical manufacturing concern in the world. The induction motor session included my old Buddy, Jim Hollyer, who is now Asst. Supt. of the Induction Motor Shop and looks much the same as he did in 1924 and 1925. Sorry I didn't get to meet him again. The cable business was revealed as being a big business too and Vince Sheals, formerly of N.Y. Office is now Asst. Designing Engr. and presided at the session. Shanklin, famed cable man, gave a talk and because he is stone deaf, spoke in such a peculiar sing song he was very difficult to understand, certainly such a man deserves great credit.

We had lunch in Bldg. 48 again and having some time to spare, Mac and I wandered through Bldg. 16, seeing the enormous waterwheel generators in production and also the submarine generators which Schdy. took away from Erie and have developed into a tremendous business, thanks to Whitey Wilson's aggressiveness in 1935 when he questioned why we weren't in this field. Now we are neck and neck with Cocker-Wheeler for leadership. That's the sort of stuff that gets men to the top and Whitey is headed there.

The afternoon session was largely turbines

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