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WACO          Page 104

I have always blessed that "souffle guest" for accelerating Sam's faith in his "other half." The tall thin chap I was later told was Lingbergh. Who would suspect he was to fly the ocean to Europe two years later?
The field, with barn for assenbly of WACOs was beside the Ohio river
This field was the acid test of our chief selling point: i.e. [[underlined]] quick take-off and climb.[[/underlined]]Tex La Grone , an [[underlined]]old timer[[/underlined]] from Knss City distrib-
utoship[, would watch the take-offs, say. "Just so many then you're gonna lose one!" Each distributor had a contract to sell twelve or twenty-four WACOs that year 1925..1926. Same convinced them they could do it with such a good ship at such a low price, $2500. We had chosen happily married young couples who had to succeed as did we. 
Many a day after our employees had been paid, Sam and I hoped we might be invited to one our their paid for houses for dinner. Cash on hand just was NNOT. Someone wanted to trade their Packard in as part payment. Sam rushed me to the door to see what he had brought me. The Packard was lovely BUT..entirely out of keeping with things as they were. We drew no salary and no matter how glowing our HOPES, I felt that money.^[[FIRST]] should be toward out own home or the new first factory. Imagine my mazement, thinking I had disappointed my husband, he was so pleased with my reaction. He had hoped he was right in believing I never did the "wrong " thing, but he would never have any doubts after this.
Another time on one of our impromptu trips to Dayton, Sam went thru a red light. The cop whistled..[[underlined]]and I looked back[[/underlined]]. Pronto, Cop alongside of us, and Sam, instead of being annoyed , let out his gorgeous laugh. He told the cop he would train me better, for the future, "not to look back." All compunction, I had to alugh too, telling the cop, I was just an honest-new-wife. We didn't get a ticket. 
Orders for ships came in so fast we needed a bigger field. This was two miles from Troy, and many ships could be assembled at one time. At least [[underlined]]Three Waco Nines.,[[/underlined]] at a time. This provided more excursions