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Erie, Pa., 
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 1940.

A relatively quiet day. Doc Gillilan asked me if I had had my rating sheet session with Whitey - wanted to warn me about it - and we had a little talk in which it developed that Doc was not the "man at my elbow". So I feel reasonably sure it was Rudy although there is a faint possibility it was Jake. Doc had Jake's sheet to rate incidentally. If it was Jake by any chance, I haven't much respect for his opinions, but I'm still inclined to believe it was old Rudy. I confided in Doc that the "man at my elbow" had given me rating's well below the other two, and Doc was inclined to believe it may not have meant anything as the man might simply look at the ratings a different way, which Whitey suggested also. However, the low ratings in Leadership and Initiative stood well out - I can't laugh that off. Am marking [[image: capital L with small capital I inset]] on my desk calendar every day to remind me of my objectives.

I say a relatively quiet day. Some items:
1.) AIEE Executive Committee meeting.
2.) Sessions with Guillot and Wolf on N.Y.C. 70 ton.
3.) Session with Currie on Republic Steel air dumping.
4.) Session with Whitey on 30 ton gas-mechanical loco. program for wartime production for War Dept.
5.) Session with Gus Marx on tank educational order.

Got going this evening on transferring the rest of my stamps into my new stamp book, a job I have been putting off for years and should be done.  

We are having our second thaw of the winter and the streets are swimming in slush so badly the driving is very precarious - nearly got stuck several times driving home from plant.