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103 En route to Washington Sunday, Aug. 30, 1942. Fiddled around the house this morning checking over the accounts briefly - Willie is taking care of them now and doing a fine job - and prepared a couple of charts for my talk at the District Managers meeting in Erie Sept. 7 and 8 that Whitey insists I attend as [[red underline]] "head of the Industrial Haulage Section". Chet Lang will be there [[/red underline]] and I'm expecting an inquisition about WPB. The [[red underline]] children [[/red underline]] wanted to go to the [[red underline]] ball game, [[/red underline]] a doubleheader, this afternoon so we let them go [[/red underline]] [[red underline]] by themselves [[/red underline]] and took a [[red underline]] ride in the country out through North Girard for the traditional ice cream cone, and back to the airport for a while then to the ball park where the game was still on and then to the train. The country is very lovely this summer - green and lush after all the rain and it was a [[red underline]] pleasant leisurely drive that I enjoyed. [[/red underline]] If I am pulled out of Washington there will be many compensations; from a personal standpoint I'll be very happy to go. I'm missing a lot here at home. [[red underline]] Frank Suleski went down with me tonight [/red underline]] - Carl Geiger and Dick Miller didn't show up. I brought along a flask of Cutty Sark as you can't buy liquor on the train on Sunday, and we had it to liven up our meal and another before bed. There was an [[red underline]] army nurse [[/red underline]] on the car in her summer uniform and her second lieutenant's bar that really had all the men interested even though she wasn't pretty - she was as neat and trim as a pin.[[Red close bracket]] Washington, D.C. Monday, Aug. 31, 1942. This was one of those [[red underline]] low days [[/red underline]] such as we experienced last spring occasionally. Neither the Navy nor DPC would make their minds up on a couple of locomotives for Sept. delivery that have been held up and one for DPC has been finished at GE for several days. [[red underline]] McCaffrey [[/red underline]] of DPC