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rest of the afternoon there, there being not much point in returning to the office, but I phoned there. And sure enough the western sky got black soon after we got home, and the storm caught up to us.

As Willie had not prepared for us, we had dinner at the Den and took the 7:50 PM New York Central for Boston. I find myself getting closer and closer to Roy - I told him considerable about my career since joining G.E. and he told me more about himself - how at one time, when only 17, he held the record of the American Army for killing Germans- 480 in one engagement with a machine gun! He told me also that he was once a pilot and had a pilot's license. something I never knew. I find I have developed a genuine liking for Roy - like him, like to be with him, to work with him. And yet looking back, I can remember vaguely my first few contacts with him years ago when he impressed me as being a big, handsome, dissipated Irishman and that was all, and not particularly impressive to me. After one learns to know people well, what a difference it makes.

En route to Erie,
Friday, April 12, 1940.
John Downie was on deck at the office when we got there this morning and after coffee in St. Clair's we taxied down to the B & M where the round table conference in "JW's" office which we hoped for 3 weeks ago, was today definitely set up. Roy opened up with some brief preliminary remarks and then handed me the job of killing the Hercules alternative, which I think I did successfully to J.W. We then went on into our truck design with John taking the brunt of that rally and I feel we