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Washington. D.C.
Thursday, July 23. 1942

Spent all day at WPB working with Vic [[underlined in red]] Remix [[/underlined in red]] and [[underlined in red]] Ed Harley [[/underlined in red]] on [[underlined in red]] locomotive schedules [[/underlined in red]] to get a picture of orders on hand, capacity, 1942 deficit, etc., for a report to the [[underlined in red]] Requirements Committee [[/underlined in red]] and I must confess, felt I wasn't getting my job very well started. How even I can't do much until get I get some status down here and that is now in Whitey's hands as I mailed him yesterday [[underlined in red]] copy of the "$1 a year" form [[/underlined in red]] I shall have to sign and he must get Schenectady OK. So I feel very uneasy at the moment and shall until this is cleaned. I am officially WPB and can really go to work with some authority. In the meantime about all I can do is worry along, learn what I can and plan. 

Had [[underlined in red]] dinner with Frank Headley [[/underlined in red]], Earl Bill, Jack Casey[[guess]] and McBride (Turbines - Schdy) and later Frank and I slipped off for a visit to [[underlined in red]] Bill Sagstetter[[guess]] [[/underlined in red]] who goes in the Army next week in locomotive maintenance work. Bill apparently is in bad with Stevenson for his part in the Section mess - very unfair I feel as he was simply doing what he was told and is one fine boy, not very experienced. [[underlined in red]] Hanly, of course, is [[/underlined in red]] rather [[underlined in red]] tragic, [[/underlined in red]] although he is putting up a good front after his [[underlined in red]] demotion by Stevenson. [[/underlined in red]] Here he was, an assistant roundhouse foreman raised suddenly to literally run the locomotive industry of the U.S.A., sought after and fawned over by the railroad presidents, corporation heads etc. - it must have been like a dream to him - and then suddenly yanked out of it and shoved up on the shelf. I believe the Army was responsible largely for his demotion but it is a long story. Much as I like Carroll personally, I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did.