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(about the gun mount job) and was altogether pleasant and cheerful; and I thought how silly it was to give last night's "damn fool question" incident a second thought.

Spent the morning on miscellaneous jobs including an inspection of the B&M. Home for a quick lunch and a haircut at John La John's and back to the office to have Whitey inquire if I had written the letter yet to the districts. I told him I was just about to start that, inwardly regretting I hadn't done it this morning and making a resolution to do Whitey's jobs hereafter as soon as possible. It took Eddie and me about 15 minutes to do the job and get Whitey's approval, and it could have been done first thing this morning without interfering at all with my other work. MORAL - Don't put off something you aren't keen about - do it and get it out of the way!
 
There wasn't much time in the afternoon to get any farther with Eddie about "what's going on" in there. I don't think I'll learn that until I get in there and stay. Spent the afternoon arguing with A.J. Woodward and Kjolseth and John Downie about whether we should tell the B&M we would reimburse them if their local inspector made them change any of the I.C.C. safety features approved by Washington. They said "no" and I said "yes" because they had nothing in writing to show approval. Fortunately for them (and for me) a letter ^[[of approval]] arrived from Mills, Chief of the Safety Bureau at Washington just as we quit our discussion - whereupon they were pleased and acquiesced in my agreement to pay because they felt there was no chance we ever would have cause to!

After Harry Ellis gave me hell about the B&M's cluttering up his Bldg. 60, I phoned Donovan to try and get an inspector over here tomorrow to witness the weighing, credit approval or no credit approval. Neil said he was