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Iron that their locomotives were okayed for shipment to them in December. Old man Stephenson, the President of the outfit, was so gleeful and incredulous he invited me to come uptown with him and get drunk, and it was about 10:30 AM!
Went up to the Lafayette at 5:30 where I met Henry and Carl for a couple of farewell "balls" before they hopped off for Erie. Carl informed me that at the moment the Cummins engine situation is [[underline]]very[[/underline]] bad - not because they can't get them but because so many are coming in they are taxed for storage facilities and he had difficulty restraining Dick Miller from renting an uptown garage for the purpose. And still Cummins yells for AA1!
Got my Pullman ticket for going home next Wednesday night and also for Dec. 23rd - and the best I could do now is an upper!
Dinner with Vic, Ed, Mat and Watkins of the Akron Canton & Youngstown, at the Wardman tonight. Mat felt so poor after the $88 check last night he let Watkins buy his own dinner - this is almost unbelievable for Mat to do; he is regarded as the super-entertainer of the gang.

Washington, D.C.
Thursday, Nov. 19, '42.

This was rather an uneventful day after the last two. We had a long session with Major McLeod, who still handles locomotives by has been transferred to the Transportation Corps of the Services of Supply from the Corps of Engineers, and the former will have charge of all locomotive procurement from now on. Poor McLeod doesn't know where he stands, exactly who the new boss is or anything