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think he would give him any more business until he got out some of his present order for 50. Tom replied that if he waited for that he wouldn't get any 0-6-0s in the second quarter. Whereupon [[underline]] Marsh [[/underline]] said he wasn't particular if he didn't get them until the third or fourth quarter, and furthermore Porter would be all cleaned up by April 1st! Apparently Marsh has in mind shoving some more Porter's way. And Marsh presumes to take on scheduling which is WPB's job. This is a concrete example of the argument [[underline]] now raging between Donald Nelson and the Army [[/underline]] - who is to regulate production? [[underline]] Charlie Creasser announced before Tom left that inasmuch as Requirements Committee Determination #178 calls [[/underline]] for the full 0-6-0 program, and General Clay sits on the Committee and okayed the determination, we are going to schedule all three builders at full capacity through the second quarter and let the Army admit they muffed the ball. The authorizations will go out tomorrow. 

I [[underline]] resent Marsh putting Vulcan in the dog- [[/underline]] house. And I sometimes lose my faith in justice. Here is Porter who have done everything wrong that could possibly be done, and Vulcan, who have really tried to do everything right they possibly could - Porter gets the Army-Navy E and Vulcan gets nothing but abuse! The Porter compliance case is getting underway but as to what [[underline]] Evans [[/underline]] was written in answer to his letter to [[underline]] Nelson [[/underline]]  about [[underline]] me [[/underline]] I don't know. Perhaps [[underline]] Stevenson [[/underline]] will tell me tomorrow. If the 0-6-0 program flops, [[underline]] Evans is lucky again - [[/underline]] loaded his books with illegitimate orders and suddenly they tend to become legitimate - while Vulcan 

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