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[[red underline]] for discontinuing our work Sperry reports that $22000000 order for airplanes [[red underline]] were cancelled in one single plant [[/red underline]] and that directors of that Company [[red underline]] as well as workmen were gloomy. I do not see why anybody in that line of work should feel gloomy. Everybody knew that this war was to end some day and when it ended we had to stop manufacturing. [[/red underline]]
Mention was made that [[red underline]] Daniels and Hurley [[/red underline]] yesterday at dinner of Naval Architects had stated [[red underline]] Government would run Merchant Marine in conjunction of Navy sooner than repel seamen-laws [[/red underline]] or sooner than subsidize private concerns, until [[strikethrough]] Europ [[/strikethrough]] other nations had brought their own laws concerning employment at sea,[[red underline]] up to our own standard. [[/red underline]]
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(afterwards went with [[red underline]] Admiral Smith [[red underline]] to talk with Admiral [[red underline]] Griffin [[red underline]] in relation to [[red underline]] Pupin's [[/red underline]] work. Griffin seems fully [[red underline]] optimistic as to importance and future possibilities and expressed again his intention to help push [[/red underline]] the work. Explained to him [[red underline]] Pupin's [[/red underline]] attitude in this and how he would prefer to see [[red underline]] U.S. Navy take the lead in this matter instead of some private concerns as [[red underline]] General Electric or Western Electric.[[/red underline]] I handed to [[red underline]] Griffin [[/red underline]] full correspondence collected by[[red underline]] Addicks [[/red underline]] on the subject of [[red underline]] quartz [[/red underline]] and told him from now on I left the whole [[red underline]] quartz [[/red underline]] purchase and location matter [[red underline]] in his hands, but would try to cooperate in other matters whenever I judged this might do some good. [[/red underline]]