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and winding up with a harangue about a hair-brained scheme for running 150 - 27 car 750 ton autorailer trains between the U.S.A. and Alaska as by far the best answer to the problem of getting large quantities of material up there. We agreed to study the question of putting the autorailers back under L-97 and to let them know tomorrow.

Had a pleasant luncheon at the Hay-Adams with Andy Campbell, John Grace, Art and Marshall. On the way back to the office, stopped at the Indian Shop at the Interior Bldg. where I bought a couple of charming silver pins, one for Miss Peters and one to take home, and admired the beautiful work in the place.

This evening we met the Army & Navy at 7 PM at the office and had a session over all their orders which lasted to 11:15 PM. It appears we shall get AA1 for nearly all their stuff but I still wonder what will happen to the poor devils who aren't Army or Navy sponsored but need locomotives just as badly. If someone doesn't wake up there will be a hell of a scarcity of locomotives soon and the war effort will suffer; there is a definite shortage of industrial locomotives now and it will get worse if someone doesn't come to life. Perhaps I can do something on this after I return to GE. In our session, H.K. Porter came in for the usual razzing but as far as I can see Evans still gets about what he wants including every break of the game; some day there will be a time of reckoning - his luck can't hang on forever - or will it. I'm almost to the point where nothing he did nor anything done to him would surprise me too much - be it good, bad or indifferent.

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