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pass the physical examinations necessary for his annual licence. Buck said before he died he had never smelled nor been able to taste food since the crash. That summer Weavers moved into what was really an attic when somehow body and soul were held together by the passengers Buck carried in his Jennie. The winter was full of hardship. Sam and Clayt shared the other bed room and managed to stand the cold of the thin bed by putting newspapers between the/thin mattress and the springs and some preissued army blankets. Hattie tried to combat the worst enemy to morale, which is sordidness, by digging into her trunk "THE TREASURE CHEST" from some Madeira linens and candle sticks with which to make the supper table look like Delmonico's or any where else so to which ready imaginations might transport them. That winter there was a cook on a lake steamer who was a bit "cracked" who, with his good salary, was replenishing worn out parts of the Jennie with 2 x 4's (honest injunctions) and desired assistance at good pay from the Weaver Aircraft Company. The boys provided him with an opportunity of being an Humanitarian. They fixed the ship so that the 'poor goof' wouldn't kill himself and at the same time the funds would continue to feed the Weaver Aircraft Company, now and then at least.

In the spring of 1921 Buck and his family joined Laddie Laird in Wichita, Kansas. The building of Wacos was indefinitely postponed. Sam and Clayt found steady employment in a garage in Lorain and Buck was earning a steady good salary in Wichita, all biding their time for future manufacturing. The first air races were held at Omaha in 1921 as a hangover; literally and figuratively, of the A.E.F. Convention in Kansas City. This provided a short reunion for the Gang. (Great self-restraint here by the author)
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In the spring of 1922, due to an offer from Buck's brother who was instrumental in the invention of the Eskimo Pie, Buck took the New England Eskimo Pie Agency. This looked like the answer to the still-clung-to determination to show the "cock-eyed" world a safer better airplane within the financial reach of everyone. This meant the butchers and grocers, whose faith in aviation as applied to the Weaver Aircraft Company, was nil could be paid. Buck took Clayt with him and the months spent in Boston and New York by Buck and Clayt, Hattie and little Buck, were full of sparkling fun and humor provided by their one dissipation -- playing cards. - or riding bus together.