Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominate Yehudi Menuhin. This artist has shown by his words and actions such a sane outlook upon the affairs of this world that he puts to shame the managers of our international life. He teaches a lesson that . . . tolerance is a two-way street-that the hand of friendship must be stretched out to all men of good will-and not only to those that you particularly approve...
...Friendship Train (TIME, Nov. 17) rolled on last week, its chain of boxcars lengthening like a giant beanstalk. It rumbled down the eastern slope of the Great Divide and over Midwestern plains. At city and whistle stop alike, additional cars bulging with food were hitched up. At week's end, the train had 207 cars, and it had still not reached New York, where a huge end-of-the-line contribution for Europe's hungry was already waiting...
...Friendship Train was only a klieg-lighted symbol of year-round generosity. Since January, individual U.S. citizens have been voluntarily giving more than $12 million a month for European relief through private agencies. Out of human sympathy, plain Americans were giving plenty of evidence that their hearts were as big as their purses...
...inevitable happened. Chuck Luckman turned up in Hollywood to preach his save-food doctrine and witness the start of the "Friendship Train," a cross-country stunt to collect food donated for hungry Europe. Surrounded by the great and near-great of Hollywood, he watched the ceremonies center on a flag-painted collection of boxcars, loaded only with movie stars and searchlight generators. Then, after the famous names had gone home, the real train started out of Glendale station, hauling twelve carloads of wheat, flour, canned milk and a soybean by-product called Multi-Purpose Food...
Heading toward New York, the train began to snowball. At each stop it picked up new carloads. By the end of the second day, it had more than tripled in size. The Friendship Train was not Chuck Luckman's idea. It had been born in the mind of Columnist Drew Pearson as a good-will gesture from the people of the U.S. to the people of Europe. But it would help Luckman's program indirectly...