{"product_id":"2940015628357","title":"The Go-Getter","description":"I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Alden P. Ricks, known in Pacific Coast wholesale lumber and shipping\u003cbr\u003ecircles as Cappy Ricks, had more troubles than a hen with ducklings. He\u003cbr\u003eremarked as much to Mr. Skinner, president and general manager of the\u003cbr\u003eRicks Logging \u0026amp; Lumbering Company, the corporate entity which\u003cbr\u003erepresented Cappy's vast lumber interests; and he fairly barked the\u003cbr\u003einformation at Captain Matt Peasley, his son-in-law and also president\u003cbr\u003eand manager of the Blue Star Navigation Company, another corporate\u003cbr\u003eentity which represented the Ricks interest in the American mercantile\u003cbr\u003emarine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Skinner received this information in silence. He was not related to\u003cbr\u003eCappy Ricks. But Matt Peasley sat down, crossed his legs and matched\u003cbr\u003eglares with his mercurial father-in-law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"_You_ have troubles!\" he jeered, with emphasis on the pronoun. \"Have\u003cbr\u003eyou got a misery in your back, or is Herbert Hoover the wrong man for\u003cbr\u003eSecretary of Commerce?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stow your sarcasm, young feller,\" Cappy shrilled. \"You know dad-blamed\u003cbr\u003ewell it isn't a question of health or politics. It's the fact that in my\u003cbr\u003eold age I find myself totally surrounded by the choicest aggregation of\u003cbr\u003emental duds since Ajax defied the lightning.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meaning whom?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You and Skinner.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why, what have we done?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You argued me into taking on the management of twenty-five of those\u003cbr\u003einfernal Shipping Board freighters, and no sooner do we have them\u003cbr\u003eallocated to us than a near panic hits the country, freight rates go to\u003cbr\u003eglory, marine engineers go on strike and every infernal young whelp we\u003cbr\u003esend out to take charge of one of our offices in the Orient promptly\u003cbr\u003egets the swelled head and thinks he's divinely ordained to drink up all\u003cbr\u003ethe synthetic Scotch whiskey manufactured in Japan for the benefit of\u003cbr\u003ethirsty Americans. In my old age you two have forced us into the\u003cbr\u003eposition of having to fire folks by cable. Why? Because we're breaking\u003cbr\u003einto a game that can't be played on the home grounds. A lot of our\u003cbr\u003ebusiness is so far away we can't control it.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146344906992,"sku":"2940015628357","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015628357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}