Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leon Henderson was fighting mad last week and showed it as only Leon can. He even threatened to quit as price tsar...
Army Needed. By then Policeman Henderson will need a super-colossal army of price police. Originally estimated at 90,000, a number high enough to frighten all retailers, its size has already been cut by the Budget Bureau to 60,000. Of this, said OPA, only about 15,000 will be price cops, the rest clerks. This will set only one price cop to watch every 1,500 stores. Last week it seemed that Congress might whittle the force some more. Congressmen were angry and disappointed because Leon Henderson had failed to "consult" them on appointments. Regional and State administrators...
Congress, still trying to blame Leon Henderson for the X-card fiasco, got set to punish him for all the sour mail citizens have sent to Congress. Its method: cut his appropriation, possibly from $161 millions to $100 millions. Then Leon Henderson would have to ask for volunteer snoopers...
Price Boss Henderson marshaled his forces for the first enforcement attack on price ceilings. In several cities, squads of OPAgents made the rounds of retail stores, looking for posted ceiling prices. They found very few. But there was no crackdown. The agents were just dropping in to explain the complex...
...acre legal minimum. Such a cut would require a Congressional O.K., something most Washington dopesters class with a trip to the moon. In 1943, therefore, the U.S. Government is likely to pay for another bumper wheat crop it does not need and cannot store. Meanwhile, Leon Henderson's assurance that wheat rationing is not immediately likely remains the year's greatest understatement...