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Erie, Pa.,
Tuesday, Sept. 10, '40.
Whitey is in Sch'dy. today and tomorrow and Ed Waller appeared this morning and sat in with Cash and me on the mail.  Ed, I thought, looked me over a little quizzically as we sat there and I wondered how much the boss had told him about his plans for me.  I had wondered if Whitey would leave while Henry's on his vacation and Ed's appearance is the answer.  I neither saw nor heard of Ed all the rest of the day.

Found out this morning that Crucible Steel gave us a week's extension on ordering 75mm forgings which took a load off my mind.

In order to get 6 to 1 brake lever ratio on the B&M Spike offered a freak scheme last June with a yoke around the cylinder that the B&M accepted to my mild surprise.  Now Spike finds he can't even swallow it himself and has come down to earth and designed a conventional brake by sinking the cylinder slightly in the truck frame - although all the devils in hell couldn't pry such a thing out of him in the proposition stage.  By telephone via Doc Millan I got Ernie Bloss' approval and we released the job to the factory.  My five dollars that they don't ship Oct. 4th still looks good, but I'm relieved to see a decent brake when the smoke all clears away and Spike settles down to wisdom.

The New York Central drags on.  Jay Walker phoned to say he had had a session with MacDonald, Bill Hamilton, Wolf, Wakeley and Dan Worth, who happened to be in New York.  Ken and George gave us a pretty clean bill of health but Dan now wants to try a new flywheel!  So I see another couple of weeks delay.  Bill told them that