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him another chance. The latest order was for two Monongahela Connecting 95 ton jobs. As long as I can wind up in Henry's shoes, failure of this to materialize wouldn't bother me at all. I know it will be plenty tough going for a while if it goes through.

I climbed aboard the 2.35 PM train for Buffalo, having heard nothing from Horn about having Gouldy there tomorrow - also having had some discouraging news from Cliff Clark on the 5"/38 job which is all up in the air with a new "letter of intent" now promised which will say if the contract is not consummated by [[underlined]] Jan. 1, 1941 [[/underlined]] the G.E. Co. will be recompensed for any expense incurred up to that time! What an outrageous waste of time on an important defense contract!

Ken Wolf met me at the Central Terminal and Gordon Hentz drove us up to the Statler in his brand new 1941 Plymouth 4 door sedan, exactly the job I'd like to get in the spring - it is a beauty! Ken and I got connecting rooms and then proceeded to have our long anticipated "evening out" together being due in Tonawanda tomorrow at 9.15 AM to help get the "Inch Worm" into service. We opened up the celebration with three potent Cutty Sarks and soda in the Statler bar while we made pleasant small talk and reminiscences with each other - I always find Ken good company. We then proceeded to Lorenzo's for dinner (my second in two days there) where we had a bottle of chianti and one of those antipasto-minestrone-spaghetti-filet mignon-french fries-broccoli-salad-tonour-coffee belly busting meals that only Lorenzo seems able to produce in such delectable form you eat on and on beyond all the bounds of human capacity until it seems your gut would burst! But wow,