Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure from Within. Up & down the long corridors of Washington's huge new Census Bureau Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...
Signed as a Saturday-night commentator on the Blue Network was ex-OPA-Boss Leon Henderson, veteran Information Please guestpert...
William James Bouwsma (History and Literature), David Bushnell (History), Daniel Gorenstein (Mathematics), Haskell Grodberg (Government), Herman Elijah Grossman (Economics), Robert Frederick Harwood (Area of Social Science), Gregory Henderson (Classics), James Jackson Higginson (History), Kurt Hoffman (Philosophy), Thomas Campbell Holyoke (Engineering Sciences), Merton Howard Miller (Economics...
During those seven years Leon Henderson, who was at the policy-making level in the U.S. Government, vigorously helped promote the profit-making atmosphere in which Leo Cherne's Institute has thrived. Leon's job with Leo looked like something more than a profitable hookup for the two-it looked like poetic justice...
...Price. Like almost every other manufactured commodity, liquor prices came under Leon Henderson's "General Max" ceiling-over-everything a year ago. Since then the industry has been allowed to raise prices twice to meet rising costs, is now dickering again with OPA for new ceilings. And recently customers have noticed another change in their local liquor stores: brand names that no one ever heard of before. Reason: big distillers have gone shopping around the U.S., buying up little distilleries, and relabeling their stocks...