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Imperial Fertilizer Company to lease river front space and everyone is told to move – only, of course, Clyde will not. His gesture of defiance holds up trans-continental traffic for ten miles (his boycotting takes place on a bridge) but, if it is the cause of his death, it does defeat Ryan and the Imperial Fertilizer Company, and gives Frank the chance to wed Clyde's widow in double-quick time. Daffy doings, characters and situations have a topographical as well as a sociological interest throughout and accompany a story that has a broadly humorous attitude toward conventionality. Special tastes.
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