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Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, Sept. 22, '42.

[[red bullet point]] [[red underline]] WPB [[/red underline]] is about to go to planned programs and material allocation [[red underline]] patterning their plan after our [[/red underline]] Motive Power Section way of operating under L-97. We are to work up a complete scheme of material allocation for locomotives, scheduling raw material into not only the builders' but also the [[red underline]] vendors' [[/red underline]] plants in time and in just the proper quantities to meet the authorized schedules. My [[red underline]] "thesis" [[/red underline]] on operation under L-97 is being used also to show some of the other branches how we work and is to be presented to the members of the Requirements Committee, etc. So the labor was not in vain - we are having 200 copies made for distribution. The rest of the week will be devoted largely to working out the material flow scheme, a big job. According to Charlie, our section is really getting some [[red underline]] recognition [[/red underline]] from the top men for its accomplishments. 
[[red bullet point]] I [[red underline]] mentioned to Charlie [[/red underline]] today that [[red underline]] Whitey [[/red underline]] wants me back by [[red underline]] Nov. 1st [[/red underline]] and Charlie indicated strongly he would not agree to give me up then. He finally suggested the possibility of going on [[red underline]] WOC [[/red underline]] later on and spending maybe three days a week here. I think it will work out that [[red underline]] way in the end. [[/red underline]]

[[red bullet point]] We had [[red underline]] luncheon [[/red underline]] today at the [[red underline]] House restaurant as [[/red underline]] the guests of Bob Jones, Mat Tate's congressman from Lima and met among others Martin Dies, famed "red baiter" whose [[red underline]] Dies [[/red underline]] Committee is so well known for investigation of anti-American activity. The restaurant itself was a disappointment - a rather ratty old place in the Capitol basement, which is open to the public and not quite so exclusive as I expected. After lunch we spent a few minutes in the house gallery hearing an argument about the farm price control bill. [[red underline]] I think [[/red underline]] we have all missed the opportunity of our lives not seeing

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