Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome...
Despite repeated statements by Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder that the U.S. would not raise the official price of gold (TIME, Nov. 14), speculators apparently followed the dictum attributed to Bismarck: "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." Over the past months, the speculators went right...
Though earnings of the family-owned Ford Motor Co. have always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out...
The news was worse than expected. Last week Britain's Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank reported that his Odeon Theatres, Ltd. and subsidiaries had lost $9,380,000 on moviemaking in fiscal 1949. Things were so bad, said the man who has been making 50% of Britain's motion...
For more than a year, giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours has been trying to drum up more competition for itself in the Cellophane business-and for a very good reason. The Justice Department had indicted Du Pont (which makes about 75% of U.S. Cellophane) on charges of monopolizing...