Word: soapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accepted the retirement, as head of the Citizens Food Committee, of Soapman Charles Luckman, whose razzle-dazzle promotions had counted for little in actual food savings but whose noisy rousing of public interest had helped get promises from distillers, bakers, poultrymen and others to cut grain consumption by 100 million bushels...
...Just as Soapman Charles Luckman's high-powered voluntary save-food campaign was all fueled up and ready to go, Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
...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...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
When Yaleman Colgate kicked himself upstairs to the chairmanship two years ago, he turned the presidency over to big, hard-working Edward Herman Little. A North Carolina farmer boy, Soapman Little was doing fine as Colgate's Memphis district manager when tuberculosis sent him to Denver in 1911. Three years later he came back, cured, went to work for Caleb Johnson, rode out the mergers, took over Palmolive-Peet's foreign division and boomed it. In his two years as president he has stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What...