Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee's members include E. Leon Chaffee, director of the Cruft Memorial Leaboratory; Edwin C. Kemble, chairman of the Physics Department; Myles L. Mace, assistant professor of Business and Government; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin; and Raymond Dennett graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House...
...Leon Henderson made it clear that he did not consider the March price structure ideal. He promised that he would realign prices at different selling levels when and as "gross inequities" showed up. Some were so immediately obvious that supplementary OPA orders were already being readied.* But OPA made its over-all ceiling policy clear: retail prices are not to be changed; the changes will come at the wholesale or manufacturing level. If necessary, subsidies will be used, as they have been in Britain (to the tune of ?125,000,000 a year) and in Canada. "But the ceiling," said...
...physical job of policing the order and of correcting inequities is so enormous that many victimized retailers may go under before OPA can get around to their rescue. Leon Henderson last week gave this migraine to an ex-Harvard professor of government, Merle Fainsod, who heads OPA's new Retail Trade & Services Division. There was serious trade talk of an ultimate need for no less than 300,000 OPA policemen. Long before that number are hired, Professor Fainsod will find himself smack up against Paul McNutt's manpower mobilization problem...
Franklin Roosevelt already had the power to enforce most of this design. Rationing was about to begin on sugar and East Coast gasoline. This week Leon Henderson clamped down the over-all price ceiling: starting May 11 for wholesalers, May 18 for retailers, prices of shoes and sealing wax are frozen at their levels of last March. Rents in almost all cities also come under the ceiling; so do the prices charged by laundries, tailors, auto-repair shops. All merchants will be licensed; retailers must display the ceiling prices in full view. This was regimentation -the first...
...situation is so serious that Leon Henderson & Co. have put on a campaign: ''Buy Coal Now"- or maybe never. Main reason is an impending shortage, not of coal but of transport: railroads, now carrying fuel because of submarine attacks on shipping, will be too busy next fall, when the huge grain crops and war shipments must be moved, to move coal...