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    "ocrText": "3:48 PM\nHAROLD ICKES to CORCORAN, (Continued):\nC - That's very, very interesting.\nI - Yeah.\nC - That would be impossible.\nI - I should think so.\nC - Certainly. Oh, how interesting.\nI - Yeah.\nC - All right, sir.\nI - All right.\nC - Thank you.\nI - 'Bye.\n4:09 PM\nCORCORAN to FOWLER HARPER (Solicitor) Interior Department, who was busy.\nHARPER will contact CORCORAN this afternoon.\n4:10 PM\nBILL SHUBERT (phonetic) (whose home is in Bryn Mawr) in Philadelphia, to\nCORCORAN. BILL asked TOM, \"Are you going to change your habits any and\nappear at one of these Brown's functions in Philly?\" TOM said he didn't\nthink so, not for the next six months or until after January 1. BILL\nsaid the \"boys\" had discussed it at lunch. They discussed the war\nsituation, stocks, trust laws, and liberalization of trust indentures.\nTOM said that V-J Day will be by September 1, at the latest. BILL said\nhe felt that \"we have much stronger hands at the reins of the horse now,\nyou know\" and reconversion may be effected more rapidly.\n4:15 PM\nJOHN SONNETT to CORCORAN. Latter said, \"I'd love to see you about\n5 o'clock.\" JOHN said, \"All right, I'll be by.'\n4:16 PM\nMr. McCASHEN to JACK NASON asking if anything is happening. No. JACK\nsaid he's meeting his technical men tomorrow. McCASHEN said he and CHEN\n(who just got back), who is head of the China food business, have come\nto an agreement as to an equal split of 100 units each. Therefore, food\nwill get half and China agriculture will get half. They discuss UNRRA's\npart in the negotiations and the names of various Chinese businessmen\nengaged in the purchase of McCASHEN'S gas engine. Allis-Chalmers is\nattempting to sell the Chinese agricultural group in China, and dealing\nwith a Chinese named DR. BUCK. McCASHEN is to see the Russian specialist\nMonday. His deal with them has been dragging for about a year and now\nthey have clearance from Moscow, said McCASHEN. McCASHEN is in Room 838\nof the Willard Hotel in Washington.\n4:40 PM\nGARLAND (phonetic) from the War Department to CORCORAN. GARLAND said,\n\"I'm the fellow that's badgering you.\" CORCORAN told him that he was not\nbadgering him that they had a good friend and if he asks me to let you\nbadger me it's all right. CORCORAN asked him if he was going to be in\ntown tomorrow and GARLAND said he had an appointment in the morning and\nis stuck at the War Department tonight. CORCORAN told him to call again\nat 6:00 P.M today and he would see what he could do.\n4:56 PM\nFOWLER HARPER (Solicitor, Department of Interior) to CORCORAN. Latter\nasked if he was watching that bill up in the house. FOWLER said that the\nreport \"was supposed to come out this afternoon\" but he didn't know\n\"whether it did or not\". CORCORAN said: \"Maybe before they adjourn?\"\nFOWLER said: \"They may,\" but he was keeping his eye on it. CORCORAN agreed\nit \"needs some watching.\""
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