Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statues but his poultry farm got him in trouble. When it went bankrupt he tried to flee Tennessee, taking his automobile (on which he had three mortgages) and a truckload of chickens. Chased by deputy sheriffs to Nashville, the sculptor abandoned his car, ran across country, got away, leaving a lawsuit between the three finance companies and his statues of horses and dogs, to mark his strange passage through the bluegrass country...
While rumors flew and suits piled up, Treasurer Thompson and a few others stubbornly insisted that the company would not be wrecked. In Wall Street, which remembered Richard Whitney and Ivar Kreuger, savage wit ran riot. F. Donald Coster's epitaph became: "He couldn't face the Musica...
Putting fiction to shame, the McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
...Italian immigrant boy, was playing in the streets of Manhattan's "Little Italy," where his father Antonio had a barber shop. Antonio made enough money to open a store where he sold cheese imported from Italy. Philip grew up to run the importing end of the business. He ran it so well that the Musicas prospered, moved to the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn and there became leaders of Italian society. Besides Antonio and his wife and Philip, there were then four little Musicas: Arthur, George, Grace, Louise...
...York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall to tell how his suspicions of the company's crude drug department, which reported profits yearly but always "plowed them back" into inventory had finally forced a showdown. Mr. McCall decided to arrest Messrs. Coster and Dietrich, who ran McKesson & Robbins' mysterious crude drug department...