Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolling now," Charles Luckman breathed last week. "We're gaining momentum...
...Soapman Luckman was indeed rolling. No one could have crowded more into the nine days since Harry Truman had telephoned him to come to Washington and head the "save food to save Europe" campaign...
...Chicago's advertising agencies. "Get some ideas." He told the agency men to meet him three days hence in Washington's Carlton Hotel. While copywriters and layout artists worked and slept in their offices and a Chicago photocopy company worked overtime copying posters and exhibits, Luckman retired with reports to bone up on the problem of food. The problem was gigantic but simple. To save Europe, the U.S. had to ship 570,000,000 bushels of grain abroad. At the present rate of domestic consumption only 470,000,000 bushels would be available. The U.S. people...
Hold That Garbage. Then Luckman boarded his company plane, Lady Lever. Three hours later he was at the Carlton Hotel. The agency men were there. Luckman gave them his orders, wolfed a sandwich, conferred until 1:45 Tuesday morning, slept 3¾ hours ("That's why I have bags under my eyes"), made notes, breakfasted with the admen, saw the President, and conferred with his aides that night until far into the morning...
Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...