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...husband is a salesman and depends upon our car to earn our daily bread, but if Mr. Henderson needs our tires (we bought two new ones in September) he certainly may have them. We can always find another way to make a living...
...President's economic advisers have been warning him that full-blown inflation is on the way. The warning had been sounded many times, and at last the President was ready to hear it. Paunchy Price Boss Leon Henderson estimated that living costs, up 15% since World War II began, will rise at least 23% more this year unless drastic steps are taken...
Franklin Roosevelt took counsel with his economic-war aides in the White House last week: Vice President Henry Wallace, head of the Board of Economic Warfare; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Leon Henderson; Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Budget Director Harold D. Smith. They went in softly by a side door, came softly out the same way. From that session, the President went straight to a conference with his Combined Labor War Board. The significance was obvious. Labor has been a chief bar to an over-all anti-inflation program. Labor, for the first time since 1933, must...
...Freezing of all rents and retail prices (possibly including food prices) by Leon Henderson's OPA. Price ceilings will be set at a level of some date earlier in the year. Ceilings will take effect the day the President speaks, or soon after...
...Lyric Writer Bud Green had a new twist, but little else, in his On the Old Assembly Line, to Ray Henderson's music. End of the chorus...