Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administered the final, official rebuke to opponents of nationwide gasoline rationing by ordering Rubber Czar William Jeffers and OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to start rationing this week as planned...
Only 600,000 Pairs. In putting ceilings (69? to $1.65) on women's silk hose last week, OPA Chief Leon Henderson gave away a secret, started another hoarding rush. On manufacturers' and merchants' shelves only some 600,000 pairs of silk hose are left. Women had thought there were many more...
...decline of Henry Morgenthau typified one aspect of the New Deal dilemma: it lacked the vitality of leadership needed to throw off its ills. To practical politicians in the Democratic Party, most New Deal bigwigs had become anathema. Such good New Dealers as Henry Morgenthau, Price Boss Leon Henderson and Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who were in the bitter struggles of organizing the nation for war, had left much of their popularity and most of their political blood on the battlefield-and had won no administrative medals...
Between these attacks there were intermediate attacks. PT-boats, submarines and planes from Henderson Field attacked by night...
...after Admiral Lee's battle, a U.S. force found four Japanese cargo vessels beached about seven and one-half miles west of U.S. positions on Guadalcanal. With the help of aircraft from Henderson field, the vessels were destroyed...