Business: New Accounting

When the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December, jittery stockholders feared that their drug firm might be busted. Approximately one fourth of its $86,556,270 assets was just figures written on the books to keep the company looking prosperous while imposing Impostor F. Donald Coster milked it. Trustee William J. Wardall, appointed by the U. S. District Court to straighten out the mess, last week mailed to stockholders his first full report of the firm's financial condition:

ยป In the first five months of 1939 McKesson & Robbins made a net profit from operation...

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