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Yes or no?

How do you know you can afford

to pay that kind of money?

You're too smart to

say yes if I can't.

Well...

Now, the first thing

we'll have to do

is call a meeting

of the board of directors

and have you officially elected

president of the company.

lf I own 90/ of the stock,

I just elected myself president.

Make the happy announcement.

Who owns the other 10/?

Well, two-and-a-half

percent each

Rina Cord and Nevada Smith.

Two percent each, Judge Samuel

Haskell and Peter Carmac,

president of the

Industrial Bank of Reno,

and one percent to

your father's secretary,

Eugene Denby.

What's our cash position?

Solvent, but thin.

What do we need

to be solid?

Oh, about $200,000.

What have you done about it?

What makes you think

I've done anything?

You're here. My father wouldn't

call you from Los Angeles

just to settle with

that girl's parents.

He could have done

that himself.

I arranged a loan from

Pioneer National Trust Company

of Los Angeles for $300,000.

Good.

That'll give me enough money

to buy out

the minority stockholders,

not counting Nevada

and Rina, of course.

What's the minority

stock worth?

Maybe $60,000.

I want complete control.

Offer the others...

But Jo...

They take it or leave it.

Tell them I'm so young

and inexperienced

and have such wild ideas

that in a year, the stock

might only be worth ten.

And after they take it,

tell Denby he's through.

He's too nervous to be honest.

Suppose they turn it down.

They won't,

if you're a good enough actor.

Well, is there anything else

I should take care of,

Counselor?

Well, you might think

over that German contract,

the one you're going

to sign tomorrow.

Contract for what?

Something to do

with a new product.

Plastics, I think he called it.

Have Denby give

you the file on it

before you talk to

him about his stock.

Study it, and give me a

breakdown tomorrow morning.

All right.

lf you'd prefer,

I'll clean out that desk,

take care

of the personal things.

Personal things?

He was an impersonal man.

The contents of this desk...

you could never tell he once

had a wife who had his son.

Your father was

a very remarkable man, Jonas.

My father was a greedy, selfish,

insensitive,

unsympathetic drunk.

How he got as far as he did,

I'll never know.

It was a present from my mother.

Have the plane ready,

tomorrow morning, 6:00 a.m.

Airplane?

We're flying to Los Angeles

to get the money.

What about your

father's funeral?

Don't worry.

I wouldn't miss that

for anything.

Welcome home, Mr. Jonas.

Thank you, Jedediah.

My father's dead.

I know.

Mr. Denby called.

I'm deeply sorry, Mr. Jonas.

Anyone else know?

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