Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck Luckman, no man to tip his hand to real estate speculators, went about his project with as much secrecy as if he were making atom bombs out of soap chips. He set up several dummy corporations in New York, Boston and Chicago which began negotiating for parcels of Manhattan land like so many independent operators. The dummy corporations hired ten sets of lawyers, several banks and a covey of real estate scouts, none of whom were told that they were all working for Lever or even the same company. Lever executives who masterminded the deals used 20 unlisted phones...
...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...
Except for a slump in railroad carloadings there were few signs as yet that the strikes were having much effect on business. It would be several weeks before most auto manufacturers felt any real pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...
...this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they were not allowed to marry, they were much favored as lovers in the towns where they received their training; after they became members, they followed lives of chastity. But to the biographer of the future, sex is of little interest and the subject is otherwise scarcely mentioned...
...York Times Magazine, a publication which has done much for the intellectual expansion of students everywhere, has at last come up with one reason for Harvard's popularity at that woman's college in Northampton...