Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered Price Boss Henderson to ignore them...
These new rates mean increased costs to almost every big U.S. manufacturer, to consumers and to the Government, now the nation's largest single shipper. Yet at the ICC hearings the only real opposition to it came from farmer-befriending Secretary Wickard. Not even Leon Henderson protested. For he knew the boost, however inflationary, was probably inevitable...
...prevent hoarding, no rationing book will be issued unless the applicant states that the family has no more than 2 Ib. of sugar on hand for each member (penalty for lying: up to ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine). To prevent profiteering, Price Boss Leon Henderson advised housewives to protest loudly if prices go much above 6? a Ib., threatened a retail-price ceiling if such protests are ignored...
...addition to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Henderson was a member of the American Chemical Society, American Philosophical Society, and the Association of American Physicians...
Professor Henderson taught here first in 1904 as a lecturer in biological chemistry, and became a full professor in 1919. During his teaching career, he was an exchange professor in Paris and Berlin, Silliman lecturer at Yale, and Mills lecturer at the University of California...