Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerve of Leon Henderson to intimate he might confiscate tires from some of us and give them to others...
...commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl...
...There Enough? Estimates of this year's sugar supply range from Leon Henderson's pessimistic 5,300,000 tons (2,200,000 tons below 1941's record consumption, 1,400,000 tons below the 1932-41 average) to the Commodity Research Bureau's 8,360,500. The great unknowns are 1) the 1941 carryover, estimated by the Department of Commerce at 2,000,000 tons on Jan. 1; 2) 1941 consumer hoarding, which some guesses put as high as 1,000,000 tons...
...technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...
...goes to bed late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...