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cliff and letting it stand and grind away for ten or twelve hours at full power - running a tank down a river with the driver up to his neck and the engine nearly completely submerged in water! There will have to be a lot of mutual education if and when we get an order.

The air attacks on London must be horrible -and the RAF in retaliating on Berlin. Winston Churchill warned Britain today that the long heralded invasion of Britain is now very imminent. A few years ago all this would seem as fantastic as one of H.G. Wells' imaginative novels. It is hard to  believe. Sometimes I find myself saying, "Can this all be true? What is it all about anyway? Can civilized people actually be doing these barbarous horrible things?" And then I know it is true - perhaps far more true than we over here in peace can have any conception of. How and where will it all end?

Erie, Pa.,
Thursday, Sept. 12, 1940.

Spent the day exclusively on the tank proposal in an effort to get it out positively tonight - and at 5 PM we had everything ready to shoot except the prints and curves from Nomine. I phoned and his girl assured me we would get them shortly and in a few minutes called to say they were ready. I rushed up and instead of finding prints of ten different drawings and curves, found one! Nomine said he knew nothing about it and had to close up now on account of the Labor Laws! "Cash" Davis and I after failing to get St.L. or Dawson on the phone to put on pressure, had to give up and be content to send out tomorrow morning. Horn will still get the stuff in time to deliver to Capt.