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Bobbie is sick in bed with a cold again - the spring seems harder than the winter with both her and Roy. The weather is so changeable now - cold one day and warm the next - the problem of dressing them properly is a hard one. Mother called me last evening ( and it was a peculiar thing because I had a telegram from Syracuse in the afternoon which scared me until I found it was from Jay Walker!) and said someone at church had told her she saw a notice in the paper some time ago that I had an account in a bank in Syracuse and my address was unknown (the Syracuse Savings Bank Cousin Kate sent me a notice of a year ago, which I had forgotten about and found was about $4 when I wrote them). Mother was so wild about it she couldn't eat and had to phone me. I think I calmed her all right but it shows how she is about such things. Roy wired today there might be a conference in Boston Monday so maybe the B&M is coming to a climax. I want to finish up my career as a Commercial Engineer by seeing us get that order and also dispose of Taryan, Jr. I can quit then with a clean conscience. Erie, Pa., Friday, April 26, '40. Things went smoothly today for me. Rudy got back and marched into Whitey's office to find me there reading the mail. I think he was taken somewhat aback. During the day he and Jake had a terrific argument as to why Jake had refused to try to sell a deluxe 44 ton to Swift when they had told him they