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[[underlined]] Kardex [[/underlined]] visible card record idea for keeping track of and controlling this program and we are going ahead with it as fast as possible - just a good example of forcing myself out of mental laziness and then coming forth with a good idea. I've got to make good on this job and I can if I use my head - it's a good head if only I'll use it.

[[underlined]] The whole priority system was recently inflated [[/underlined]] by the addition of AAA and AA1, AA2, etc. ratings which means an A1A for locomotives is now no better than the A3 we had before. Charlie Warren thinks today he can get a [[underlined]] AAA [[/underlined]] for critical items in our program for [[underlined]] 3rd quarter delivery [[/underlined]] such as [[underlined]] castings, forgings, shapes, engines, billets, gears[[/underlined]], etc. and I stayed tonight until 9 o'clock helping Charlie, Bob Van Zant, Press Miller and Lou Malcolm summarize the 3rd quarter requirements in these items from the various builders PD-25-A's on their PRP's. [[underlined]] Bob left [[/underlined]] when I did and suggested a beer so we went to the [[underlined]] "821" [[/underlined]] across from the G.E. office, in the basement where there's a [[underlined]] Bavarian atmosphere and music[[/underlined]] and [[underlined]]polished off two bottles of sauterne [[/underlined]] during a very good conversation lasting [[underlined]] until nearly midnight. [[/underlined]] (Bob is an interesting boy--28 years old, clever, unstable, charming, sensitive and tough both--fond of music and bitterly disappointed because his hands were too small to play the piano brilliantly--also fond of writing. He told me if he could just do three things in life he would be happy - play good music, write, and make love. He's an interesting character. I must watch my step with him - he likes to raise hell and before, Frank Headley and I encouraged it to the point where Charlie Warren I think got rather provoked at us.)