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En route to Boston,
Wednesday, Mar. 27, 1940.

Spent most of the day shaping up the B&M job and cooked up some alternative locomotives in case Tarzan Jr. does not fill the bill but we don't need to go all the way to the $35000 deluxe job. When I got back from lunch found a wire from Roy asking if I could fly over leaving Erie at 3:15 PM today and arriving Boston at 6:25 PM! I simply couldn't get ready in time, but the idea of getting from here to Boston in 3 hr. 10 min. intrigued me immensely. This afternoon attended a session in St.L's. office about the 658 spindles we are making for A.C.&F. for the tanks, the one order we got from them for about $18,000, out of the "half a million" Whitey envisioned last fall. On the spindles, we now stand to lose $33,000 and an out-of-pocket loss of $12,000! After all the mulling over had been done, in which I took little part, I suggested they try to transfer the balance of the order to [[Transue?]] Williams who was almost down to us on the bidding and St.L. snapped the idea up. He thought they would even give us 10% and we could make up our losses so far that way - good old ultra optimistic St.L! I hardly think it will turn out that well. On the train tonight I worked hard from 8 PM to 11 PM on the B&M tabulating all the locos we might offer, and went to bed feeling I had done a days work.

Boston, Mass.
Thursday, Mar. 28, 1940.

Today has been one of my blackest in a long time - full of disappointment all out of proportion to the actual gravity of the situation, perhaps most because I feel hurt by injustice - feel like a sucker. We went 

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found it anyway: https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/6766001Z:US-transue-&-williams-stamping-co-inc