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Erie, Pa.,
Saturday, Sept. 14, 1940.

My second Saturday of work in a row. Up at 6:30 AM picked up Ken Wolf and met Bill Hamilton at the Lawrence at 7:30. Bill had dined, so Ken and I ate breakfast and we all departed for the plant. Bill was pleasant but not gushingly so,  asked if I thought he ought to put on some heat and I said yes. So when we met Bob Barrell, Bill complied. Bob's first remark was, with a smirk, "Well, I can't do anything for you this morning." Bill just gave him an ultra hard book and rasped out, "WHY?" This set Bob back on his heels and he explained that he couldn't do anything until Dan Worth arrived on the puddlejumper from Washington. Then Bill proceeded to give Bob as nice a dressing down as I've heard in some time - after that Bob saw the necessity for action and we had a very successful day at Bldg. 60. Zeke Tinkey, the Cummins service man who looks like a half-Indian Oklahoma share-cropper, got busy and discovered air in the fuel lines which led to the discovery of a leaky emergency fuel cut-off valve. With this corrected, there was no more trouble with erratic engine operation. Of course, this was something that should have been found long before Bill came and the point was not overlooked by him and Ken. We got #2 engine set for HP and approved, although we had to go slightly under the 190 HP for traction we sold - there was too much smoke if we tried to get 190 and we wound up with about 185. Bill remarked later to me, "Craton, I think you were a little over optimistic when you sold this for 190 HP" and I explained again we made a mistake in fan HP estimating it at about half what it should have been. But Bill seemed satisfied. On #1 engine the vibration