He gives Bill instructions to buy it whatever the cost and bring it to him at the railway station by eight o'clock. Cappy telephones Bill and tells him he saw a vase he liked, but could not spare the time to purchase it. He and Skinner go ahead with the "blue vase" test, a test everybody has failed, including Skinner. When he tells Cappy of his plans, however, the widowed Cappy is adamantly opposed to losing Margaret's company. With his commission from his trip, he buys an engagement ring. Meanwhile, Bill and Margaret fall in love. Not only does Bill sell all of the spruce, he also generates orders for all of the lumber the company has and more, all in a single business trip across the western United States, forcing Cappy to send him to Seattle to buy the shortfall from a hard-negotiating competitor. He and Skinner decide to give Bill the hardest task they can think of: selling a half million feet of unwanted skunk spruce Cappy bought years ago as a favor to a friend. Cappy, who is frustrated with the way Skinner and Peasely have been running the businesses he built up, is quite willing to countermand them. She sees her father first, and asks him to give Bill a chance. He assumes she is also a job seeker and makes a date with her, unaware she is Cappy's only offspring. While waiting in the reception area, he encounters Margaret again. Undeterred, Bill seeks out Cappy Ricks, the retired founder of both companies. Matt Peasely, head of a shipping firm in the same building, is more polite, but the answer is still the same. He tries a lumber company run by Lloyd Skinner, interrupting a meeting between Skinner and his fiancee Margaret Ricks. He goes looking for employment, but jobs are scarce in San Francisco. Bill loses a leg as a result of the crash and leaves the Navy. When the US Navy rigid airship Macon is damaged in a storm and crashes into the water (as the real USS Macon did in 1935), helmsman Bill Austin stays with his commanding officer until the rest of the crew has gotten safely away. The film was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released through Warner Bros. A determined discharged US Navy veteran succeeds in the lumber business. The Go Getter is a 1937 film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring George Brent, Anita Louise, and Charles Winninger.
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