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at Fontana, Cal. are late because they stepped up the opening of the mill from Feb. to Dec. and never checked up on locomotives until now. There is a storm brewing on this situation. A G.E. coke quencher in particular is a very bad spot - scheduled for February and needed in November. Maybe one of these days people will realize industrial locomotives are important.

This afternoon Barton and I attended a meeting between the Army and Berteling of the Inn & Steel Branch over a couple of second hand GE 44 ton locomotives that [[underline]] both [[/underline]] had bought from the now defunct Arkansas Valley - fighting like two dogs over a bone. Suerson, the fat New York Jew who once visited Erie, was there. I didn't remind him of our previous meeting - nor did I mention the fact he is selling the units for more than he paid for them. The Army got them of course although their story was very questionable and Berteling went away with nothing to help Carnegie-Illinois Homestead Works who are suffering from lack of locomotives from Porter - months late. And yet they just placed an order for two more on Porter!

I worked tonight at the office until 10:45 when I got groggy, walked home and to bed. The weather is very oppressive - any exertion causes the perspiration to run down you and you feel all washed out all the time.

Washington, D.C.
Thursday, Sept. 10, '42.

Charlie Creasser in Montreal this week inspecting Canadian locomotive mfg. facilities so I was invited to the weekly staff meeting in Stevenson's office. [[right bracket]] It wasn't so thrilling and the one point I brought up about job priority ratings for locomotives was dismissed by Andrew as not of general