Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Boss Leon Henderson said he had announced the rationing in advance to forestall "more confusion and hysteria than even now exists on the subject of coffee." Coffee sales will be completely halted for a week before rationing begins. Then sugar ration stamp No. 28 will become coffee ration stamp...
Then hell fell on the beachhead. In mid-morning a fence of enemy cruisers and destroyers shelled it from the north. Douglas dive-bombers went up and damaged a heavy cruiser. Then 16 enemy dive-bombers, which must have been carrier-based, attacked Henderson Field. Five were shot down. Nine more Jap divers swooped in. This time they did damage...
...this week the airmen on Henderson Field had the upper hand. But Henderson Field-and the Army's distant bases-made up only a part of the Jap v. U.S. air ratio. The Japs might bring up their superior carrier strength, and this they apparently did this week...
Good news for the 17,000,000 U.S. bowlers: starting Nov. 1, bowling rates will be under the thumb of Price Boss Leon Henderson. Ceiling: March (1942) prices...
...money in the citizen's pocket, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., having recently defeated a sales tax, is still playing with cheap-money methods of financing the war which have a direct inflationary effect. As to cheap prices, Price Boss Leon Henderson has been doing a sterling job of creating retail bargains...