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I arranged with Jay Walker to take Blanchard with me to New York for tomorrow's conference with Phil Hatch nd we decamped from Boston on the "Uberlantis" at 5 PM, the first time I believe I ever rode on an extra fare train.  Four and a quarter hours to Grand Central made a fast trip with plenty of curve lurching reminiscent of Little Falls a few weeks ago.  Charlie Caley of the New Haven was on the train and he was making a joke of it until I mentioned Little Falls and he stiffened up quite noticeably then, making me sorry I said such a thing even in fun.

I had a good talk with Blanchard going down and found him very interesting.  He told about William Hazlet Upson being fired from a Texas tractor concern for "applied liesure" and going on from there to fame as the creator of Alexander Botts of the Earthworm Tractor Co.  He told also an interesting Tale of a man who was damming up a Canadian swamp so beaver would breed in it again and wanted to put 1 1/2 feet of water on 2500 acres, running a pump with the power take-off on a snall Caterpiller tractor and the figured out it would take him about 5 years to pump that much water - over a billion gallons!

To bed in the Commodore after reading "The Girl from Syracuse" in the current Post, a story of Dorothy Thompson's cancer - she's one of out more famed alumnae.

En route N.Y. to Boston
Thursday, May 16, '40.
We spent the entire day at the office going over our 44 ton job with Phil Hatch and found him perplexed only thing - what engine to use.  So we brought all the power we could to bear for