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TRADE: No Hidden Treasures

With Musica-Coster the impostor dead & buried, a few plain facts about his twelve-year reign and rape of McKesson & Robbins made news last week. It seemed apparent: 1) that the company's $18,000,000 of missing assets would not be found in munitions or anything else because they had never existed in the first place; 2) that they had been written up on the books to keep the company apparently prosperous while Coster swindled it out of $4,000,000; 3) that much of his booty went for blackmail. Revealed by one or another of...

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