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[[red pencilled checkmark and bullet point]] If Porter would stop worrying about GE and other people and worry about getting their own mess cleaned up they would be better off. The latest story is that they have told Carnegie-Illinois they can't make any promises because WPB has held up their work. They are gunning for GE, Vulcan, Union Steel and WPB and succeeding in doing nothing but make asses out of themselves. 

[[red bullet point]] The boys, particularly Vic, Ed and Press are up to their neck in the material flow study and have production men here from Alco Lima and Baldwin working like beavers in a room upstairs. They have [[underlined]] phoned all [[/underlined]] the specialty makers for their raw material requirements and are consolidating these with the material for the big builders into one master schedule for the first quarter operations. Later we shall do the same for the small builders I presume. [[in red pencil, run on paragraph to next paragraph]]
The whole gang except Joe are staying over the weekend to work on this job and I am torn between desire to go home tomorrow and a feeling of duty to stay here and work. I know the family will be terribly disappointed if I stay and yet I feel I should even though they tell me not to.

[[red pencil checkmark and bullet point]] We all had dinner at the Mayflower and I finally took my [[red pencil underline]] first drink of [[/red underline]] whisky since last Thursday night. We had a merry time, and Ed Harly was in rare form. One of his choicest remarks was to me -- "Forie, I'll tell you where GE can get all the sheet they want." I, very seriously, bit because GE has been up against it lately for sheet. "Tell them to get it down at the sheet house!" Not very nice but it certainly brought down the house. Another of Ed's remarks was concerning these very stiff pointed brassieres some of the girls wear - "You're liable to get a fractured skull on one of those!" Again, it brought down the house. [[red pencil close brackets]]

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