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to study them over after which we would reassemble in a day or so and see what we thought about it.

Began assembling additional material for my Schenectady talk next week and spent the rest of the day on a variety of odd jobs trying to get caught up, making considerable progress.

Mr. Reynolds, former Erie Works chief electrician and long a loyal AIEE member here, died suddenly Saturday and his funeral was today. B. came and Thiele went to the funeral; I didn't but now I wish I had. As Chairman of the Erie Section, I guess I should have. I'm not inclined to be punctilious enough about such things, and ought to correct the tendency.

This evening Willie and I went to see Greta Garbo in "Ninotchka," a charming and very amusing picture taking many a sly poke at the Communists in Russia. Garbo was perfectly fascinating - such poise, such beauty, such utter charm I haven't seen in a long time. My hat is off to this Swedish beauty who is still hard to beat!

Erie, Pa.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, '40.

The B&M 43 ton demonstrator was shipped on a flat car for Mechanicville today so my upsetting the schedule to ship last Friday (which greatly upset Messrs. Mulvey, Nicklas, et al.) didn't prove so disastrous after all. May the demonstration be a success and lead to an order for about 6 of them on the B&M & MEC. But I have my fingers crossed! The side rods may still get us into a jam. A new 44 ton unit is now being designed with 4 axle [[?hung]] motors and an MO for 10 of them is soon to be issued.