Larry Keating: W.J. Archer

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• Ed Hoffman : I certainly hope your wife will be able to convince Congress.

  W.J. Archer : She will. You don't know my Nellie. She carries an umbrella, and she knows how to use it.

• Ed Hoffman : I understand, Mr. Archer, that you want to negotiate a $250,000 loan. Just what is the nature of the project?

  W.J. Archer : It's in the vending machine field.

  Howard Carroll : Well, vending machines are a big business.

  Ed Hoffman : Oh, big business, yes, very big.

  W.J. Archer : Well, I'm interested in the beverage end of it. They have machines dispensing nearly every kind of beverage, but there's one they overlooked.

  Ed Hoffman : What's that?

  W.J. Archer : Cocktails.