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Erie, Pa.
Tuesday, Nov.26, '40.
The usual whirl today; I'm beginning to get used to it. Can't enumerate all the things that came up but some high spots were:

1.) Whitey handed me a wire from Jack Heuther saying J.& L. had given us 4-20 ton mine locos and Westinghouse 12-8 ton jobs. Shap hit the roof! He said he had worked on the job 5 years, it was criminal, they must have "traded it off" for something else. Whitey said he knew nothing about it - to call Jack. I told Shap to call Pittsburgh; the answer was reciprocity on refrigerator sheets and no one could do anything about it. After that Shap calmed down and I guess decided he hadn't been sold down the river after all. He has a fixed idea that Jack will sell us down the river anytime he can. And I have orders from Whitey to send Jack copies of all our outside letters, something Shap has always dodged; presume Shap will have a fit over that.

2.) At Whitey's suggestion I wired White for a week's extension on the Army 60 ton job. Shap said it would only serve to help us lose the job because the more time we give the boys downstairs, the higher the costs will be. We got the extension. I'm beginning to see why things have been so topsy-turvy in our place. It's the sensible thing to do; we can't get out a decent proposition by tomorrow night - or an intelligent one.

3.) Gave Frank Kroner a long list of locos for TVA to try to pull it out of the fire against some competitor who says he can deliver in 2 weeks one 50 ton job. Also told Frank to sit tight on $900 extra for Timken journals on the 65 ton American Cast Iron Pipe. He said the competitor had it included but