Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where's the Goat? In Washington, people got little aid from their representatives. Convinced that gas rationing was misunderstood and unpopular, Senators and Representatives got in tune, lashed out against it. But they had no single goat. Whom were they to blame? Price Boss Leon Henderson? Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes? Donald Nelson...
...hundred Congressmen met in caucus, demanded Congress be given full facts, battered away at Leon Henderson. Said Tennessee's Republican John Jennings Jr.: "... a smart aleck . . . dictator...
...Leon Henderson last week asked for 90.000 new Federal employes (and $210,000,000) to enforce his price-control and rationing program, That is about 70% as many men as there are in all the State and local police and detective forces in the country; it is more than 20 times the peak staff (in bootleg years) of Federal prohibition agents; and it amounts to one employe for every 19 retail outlets in the U.S. But-as OPA was quick to point out -it is only one-third more than the 60,000 Britain has hired to price-control...
Citizens had stopped most of their grumbling at each other's greed for gas. Price Boss Leon Henderson told President Roosevelt he was pleased with the "fairness" of the people, said the registration for gas cards had turned out to be in line with OPA estimates. The first tabulated returns: X cards (unlimited), 9.6%; A cards (the most limited), 30.8%; B-3 cards (for business use), 37.3%. Remainder were...
...bought over 600,000 bags, is in the market for at least that much more. Anticipating this off-balance supply & demand situation, coffee prices started rising a year ago, were about to run away when Henderson slapped on a price ceiling last December. Since then coffee prices have given Leon nightmares. A tough, politically smart, internationally minded lot, the coffee boys set up a clamor for a higher ceiling. OPA boosted...