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]]> When businessman Franklin Baker began supplying flour to Cuban merchants, it seemed like he’d landed the worst business deal in history. Forget dollars and cents, the Cubans paid him with a boatload of coconuts. Literally. But rather than sinking this particular business venture, the genius entrepreneur from Philadelphia came up with a masterplan. “He thought about what he could do with all…

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