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Carroll Hanly left today - has a major's commission in the Reserve now and expects to be called to duty soon. In the meantime he will work in WPB's Philadelphia office. His career was certainly meteoric flashing up from obscurity to the top where everyone was falling all over him and then back down again and out-of-sight all in about 9 months.

His story would make a good book.

[[red pencilled checkmark and bullet point]]Press Miller, Marshall, Joe Rowbottom and I had supper at Fan & Bill's where there was a near riot at Joe's carrying on. Joe was cursing loudly most of the time but when a [[underline]]little boy[[/underline]] about 4 went by with his mother, Joe handed him a lump of sugar because he had just seen his mother deny him a lump as they left their table. I had a perfectly colossal sandwich and again [[underline]]abstained[[/underline]] from liquor resulting in many wise cracks about the terrible dressing down I must have got in Erie last weekend

Washington, D.C.
Thursday, Sept. 24, '42.
Had breakfast again with Whitey who isn't half as pessimistic about the locomotive business as he puts on - simply for effect on the sales organisation.

[[red pencilled bullet point]]My locomotive production releases are coming along well and I have everyone in good shape now except Brookville and they are fair. Porter, of course, is a mess but that's Mat's baby now. Porter has now sent in a letter listing a bunch of miscellaneous orders for various types of locomotives and announcing they propose to build these for STOCK and hence need no production release. This is the result of my conversation recently here with Rehorst, who evidently doesn't yet understand what it's all about. Also it has the earmarks to trying in some way to put me and GE on the spot.