Word: peacocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...market looks right next week, U.S. investors will get a chance to buy the U.S.'s No. 1 rayon company-American Viscose. Owned by tight-lipped Britons until the British Treasury's Sir Edward Peacock sold it to a group of Manhattan investment bankers in March (TIME, March 24), Viscose has long been the Madame X of U.S. corporations...
...ROSCOE PEACOCK President...
...gave tongue to the great Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi. When the long work reached its hushed close, 4,000 people applauded. Few of them had ever heard the like. Next afternoon and evening, they sat down to easier music. Punch-pleased were Columbians by their seventh music festival. And peacock-proud were they of the outfit which had engineered the festival: the town's own Southern Symphony, the only 100% professional outfit in the Southeast...
...Edward Peacock, who arrived in the U.S. in January to knock down Great Britain's investments in privately-owned American corporations (TIME, Jan. 20), took his biggest step first this week. His initial sale: huge American Viscose Corp., world's largest rayon manufacturer...
Confusion reigned as the first fulldress rehearsal of "Too Much Johnson" got under way last night in Sanders Theatre. Bustling belles in brocades and peacock feathers scurried around the stage, followed by strange creatures, among which was a redoubtable Frenchman dressed in a double-breasted frock coat and wearing a Napoleon III moustache...