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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicken Every Thursday | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicken Every Thursday | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Streamlined from the earlier, seven-question version, the new poll contains substantially the same questions recommended last week by Citizens Food Committee Chairman Charles Luckman. The Council rejected the Luckman version mainly because it felt food quality in University dining halls is now so low that students would refuse to give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Saving Scheme Would Cut Wheat, Get Better Diet | 11/15/1947 | See Source »

...poll, scheduled for distribution throughout the University today and already approved by Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02, was prepared by the Council food committee on the recommendation of Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Vetoes Conservation Poll; Members Disapprove Plaque Plan | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

...Luckman suggested five of the seven questions on the poll, food committee Chairman John K. Lally '49 said last night. Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '48 declared after the meeting that "the Council would far rather hold something up than put out a poll which it does not think comes up to our standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Vetoes Conservation Poll; Members Disapprove Plaque Plan | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

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