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From now on we want [[red underline]] WPB to lead the small builders [[/red underline]] not leave them on their own as in the past. The small builders have done a great job keeping their pot boiling with sorely needed small locomotives while WPB writhed in red tape and couldn't tell them what to do. Our next big job is to line up a schedule for all builders for the [[red underline]] first half of 1943 [[/red underline]] and get it approved someway. It is going to be a battle because there isn't a whole lot of factual information on requirements that far ahead. [[red underline]] I shall have to stay over the coming weekend sad to say [[/red underline]] sadder for the family than for busy me down here in the thick of things. 

It [[red underline]] poured [[/red underline]] all the afternoon and [[red underline]] put the opera on the blink. [[/red underline]] Tonight Joe worked late, Marshall went to dinner with Washington friends, Vic and Ed went to their hotel so Vic could get a phone call from home - and I was left alone. I had to choose between an evening of hell raising at the Ambassador or the Carlton and [[red underline]] a quiet evening at my hotel. [[/red underline]] I'm happy to say I chose the latter, called home, wrote to Bob Coultas and got my journal caught up. All well at home and of course disappointed at my having to stay over the weekend. I always feel much happier after I talk to them all and know they're okay. Now to bed at 10:30.

Washington D.C.
Thursday, Aug. 13, '42.

One of our major problems, that of food at noon, was solved today by a trip to [[red underline]] Harold Ickes Interior [[/red underline]] Cafeteria near our headquarters - a beautiful place with vaulted ceiling and American Indian murals.