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...Finance Minister Ilsley went to work on the most complicated and rigorous project of Government economic control ever attempted on this continent, he had an interested visitor. Short, gum-chewing Leon Henderson went up on a flying visit from Washington to get some tips on the job he may some day have to do as Price Administrator...
...William Henderson ("Red") Friesell, football's most famed referee, last week spiked a rumor that he had worked his last game. In a Philadelphia hospital with a broken leg,* the 46-year-old five-footer, who is a yard-goods buyer when he is not chasing footballs, accused Eastern sportswriters of jumping the gun. "I'll be back next year," he fumed...
...automobiles made after New Year's Day will be sans nickel, chromium or aluminum brightwork. This was the decision made last week at a three-hour Washington confab between the automakers and civilian supply boss Leon Henderson...
...last week Henderson's Office of Price Administration announced a new ceiling: 8.25? for prime Western, highest published price for zinc (with brief exceptions) since World War I. The extra penny, said OPA, would bring out more low-grade ore, help hard-pressed mine owners in the Tri-State zinc region (Missouri/Oklahoma, Kansas) pay wages that would keep miners from shifting to other jobs. One estimate of the likely production boost...
...similar price increase is likely for lead (now pegged at 5.8?), which is frequently mined with zinc. But for metals like copper-where big producers can work profitably at capacity under the present 12? ceiling-Henderson favors a two-price system to bring out marginal production. His plan: the ceiling will stay at 12?, but defense agencies will buy from high-cost producers at a higher figure...