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That means sending wires to all the district managers tomorrow [[strikethrough]] ing [[/strikethrough]] correcting the letter! And teaches me to check and double check everything!

4.) After taking a calculated 200 lb. off B&M #111 it weighed [[underlined]] 600 lb. [[/underlined]] less on the East Erie scales than when we weighed it for Fred Buckpitt! I was worried over that for fear it would throw all our weights into disrepute with the B&M but there was nothing to do but send it through.

5.) Got home to learn Dusky had swallowed a pin! Everyone worrying about that!

On the credit side of the ledger today:

1.)According to Whitey and Rudy, we got the New Haven's order for one 44 ton locomotive Friday. So I can cross that off my list of "objectives" before leaving Rudy's section.

2.) Willie discovered Dusky had not swallowed the pin - it was somewhere in his mouth all the time and was recovered bent but all there! That was such a relief. I felt positively cheerful for a while afterward.

Tomorrow if I can get Whitey to give me a square break on this move into Shap's place, and my idea of a square break is at least to make me officially head of the section through suitable announcement, and I can clean up my work this week including a trip to New England. I'll feel chipper and happy and satisfied, and will flail into the job Monday with all I have.