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Whitey and I ganged up on him on that and finally got him to agree half heartedly that on the diesels he would help. His first job may be to work on Marsh of the War Dept. who suddenly has come out for low speed engines and low speed motors! A rather serious switch for us.

2.) Charlie Reed up getting the lay of the land in the Motor Division from John Aydelott.

3.) The tank drive is slipping with Gouldy and Prince at Baldwin's today - looks like torque converter for #2! Weight is our bugaboo.

4.) A session with Harvey, Jaccard and Hess of Philco who are making a drive for our locomotive battery business on a reciprocity platform. Want it on the New Haven 44 ton, requisition number for which we have - Phil, Page and Jay Walker due here Wednesday for session.

5.) B&M's to go tomorrow, when we demonstrate one of them to Byron of the Pennsy. According to Brandy, there's a potential market there for a hundred of them!

6.) A happy family at news of the promotion. Bab's first question: "Will you get an increase in salary?" Later, "Daddy, I'm so proud of you!" I had to explain that the salary angle would be taken care of later - that a promotion means more work, much glory, sometimes no more money at the moment at least.