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the bids may be thrown out later if the law is "clarified" enough to make negociation practicable.

Horn took us to lunch at Club Madrillon, a nice cosy little restaurant not too frigidly air conditioned - today it was 93°, the hottest so far this summer - and we had a chummy little time, getting going on a few stories, et al. I feel myself getting closer to Horn and White, but Blair I find a very difficult man to get next to. He seems to have a shell up all around him and you just can't penetrate it. He never lets down the bars and gets intimate with you - confidential or genuinely friendly. He's pleasant, polite -  but somehow, you feel he is a little aloof.

We spent the afternoon at the office comparing notes, etc. Walt Harris Gouldy & Spke had gone to the Carlton for lunch and paid $2.25 for a sandwich and a glass of milk - which certainly hurt Walt in particular. All of the Erie gang except Walt were in favor of flying home Penn-Central which now stops at Erie - leave Washington at 5 20 PM - arrive Erie 8:25 PM - but as long as Walt held out for the train, StL and I agreed to go with him, and Gouldy  and Spike flew. The tank job looks impossible except for us to make the drive because the Army wants us to take on the design of the whole tank, provide a force of draftsmen and engineers we don t have, and later build 50 tanks, and still later 500. So it was agreed we would study the drive carefully. Apparently no appreciable progress had been made on this job since Emmet and I were there last month. It is almost shocking when you think of it.