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had had no black and white agreements concerning business.  Hattie knew nothing of business and only one kind of men.  The superfine kind.  Within a month after Sam died there seemed to be a great deal of business to attend to.  Hattie naturally inherited Sam's half interest and Clayt was the only one left out of "[[auld lang syane]]".  Little buck was very ill and being given the impression that funds with which that funds with which to take little Buck to a southern climate were available only by selling her stock there was naturally no argument as Little Buck was the only human being who had remained close to Hattie through eight years of her unbelievable heart-breaking chances. The fathers of Hattie's two children died exactly two years and three months apart. Hattie sold the major part of her stock to Clayt, giving Clayt the preference in buying as he justly deserved and feeling that with his continuance in the building of Wacos, the ideal[c] and terrific investments of Clayt's two former buddies, Buck and Sam, would go on into posterity and thereby neutralized the cry that each had given on their death bed "Why should I die so young when I want to do so much." 29 years old is too young for anyone to write "finis", especially two boys who were able to give to the world themselves as Captains of the Industry.
Within the next few months Hattie found enough of Sam's back salary to almost double the amount she had been given for nearly half interest in the company. Little Buck regained his health enough for the family to move back from North Carolina to Troy. Wacos had gone ahead in leaps and bounds. [[Waco]] 9's had propelled a momentum in the industry that made orders for Waco 10's so enormous there was difficulty in filing them. Within that at year plans were consummated for the building of the impressive big plant now working at top capacity in Troy. Hattie received a re-appraisal of her stock which gave her and the children a certain amount of security. Until September, 1826 the Advance Aircraft Company with Clayt as president in corporated under the laws of [Meos]. continued. Doing one of three of the original stockholders Hattie [[focused she]] on the Board of Directors, so her complete surprise, until she signed the papers for a new Board of Directors when the Advance Aircraft Company was reincorporated under the laws of Ohio. These papers were signed in the fall of 192[6]. There was a redivision of stock. It divided so that