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"letter of intent." Also Cliff gave me a set of requisition numbers to use. The only "joker" in the letter of intent was a stipulation that before proceeding we should submit to the Navy a complete list of all material we wanted to buy with estimated cost - this to be approved by the Navy before we proceeded! Tom Mulvey estimated it would be a two weeks job to prepare the list. So we talked to Jack Cunningham and Cliff Clark and we were told to square this and go ahead. "The time has come to stick our necks out a little," said Cliff. We had similar reassurances from Federal & Marine on the howitzer job about the penalty and how we would get out of it, but we got stuck just the same! So we wrote a letter to Cunningham stating our position and then pulled the throttle to go ahead. So the great job at last is on although there still is some fighting on the accounting battlegrounds before we get a contract.

3.) In our usual morning mail session, Cash and I suggested maybe Whitey and Chester Lang should visit Washington on the tank job and call on some of the "Generals." This is to appease Mr. Alger and Walt Harris and the Motor Boys. Whitey agreed to call Horn and see how he felt.

4.) Tipped Whitey off on a rumor Bill Devins told me about the Pennsy trying to buy some Winton engines to but in some Altoona built diesel-electrics and were turned down. Maybe this will lead somewhere - maybe not.

5.) Find that the B&M will require us to weigh the locomotives on a scale in good standing and furnish certified weight statement. This