Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President had finally bent a sympathetic ear, two years late, to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch's idea of an overall freezing of wage levels, profit levels, price levels. Mr. Roosevelt talked it over with his Congressional leaders, with his family at the White House, with Price Boss Leon Henderson. Then he hinted at it to the press, with an ear cocked for the national reaction...
...There Enough? Estimates of this year's sugar supply range from Leon Henderson's pessimistic 5,300,000 tons (2,200,000 tons below 1941's record consumption, 1,400,000 tons below the 1932-41 average) to the Commodity Research Bureau's 8,360,500. The great unknowns are 1) the 1941 carryover, estimated by the Department of Commerce at 2,000,000 tons on Jan. 1; 2) 1941 consumer hoarding, which some guesses put as high as 1,000,000 tons...
...under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...
...late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...
Before the sugar ration cards are shuffled, it would be wise to see who forced the deal. Although the press has promoted a campaign to point the reproving finger at housewives, a logical examination of sugar consumption unmasks the subterfuge. Had not Leon Henderson's stamp plan already nullified their small hoardings, it could still be shown that every housewife in the land could stock her pantry, fill her attic and basement, and still not equal the consumption of the soft drink, chewing gum, and whiskey industries. Each of them takes an average of a billion tons of sugar...