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<LEGEND>
     This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
consolidated  balance sheet of Capital Industries, Inc. as of December 31, 1995,
and the related  condensed  consolidated  income  statement for the  three-month
period  then ended,  and is  qualified  in its  entirety  by  reference  to such
financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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