Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt already had the power to enforce most of this design. Rationing was about to begin on sugar and East Coast gasoline. This week Leon Henderson clamped down the over-all price ceiling: starting May 11 for wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first...
...worked and will continue to work in individual cases like rubber, gas, and sugar, but the economists from Hansen to Keynes are united in believing this one-sided attack inadequate to control, an entire price structure. Temptations to the bootleg "black market" are too severe; enforcement difficulties are overwhelming. Henderson himself has publicly recognized price control to be an interim measure, a temporary substitute for taxes that hurt...
After Captain Brewer, a veteran flier of the last war, declared that college men have generally proved to be the best fliers, Lieutenant Henderson said that practically every applicant who passed the physical and mental examinations is found capable of completing the flight training which nets a commission...
...situation is so serious that Leon Henderson & Co. have put on a campaign: ''Buy Coal Now"- or maybe never. Main reason is an impending shortage, not of coal but of transport: railroads, now carrying fuel because of submarine attacks on shipping, will be too busy next fall, when the huge grain crops and war shipments must be moved, to move coal...
...insure warm U.S. houses next winter, Henderson & Co. also advise immediate conversion >of oil furnaces and stoves to coal burners. As added bait, the OPA last week refused to allow a 25?-a-ton increase in the price of coal...