Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more new tires? Then you recap. No-now there was no "camelback" for use in recapping, either, except for a few "essential" autos. But you still have your old tires. Well, maybe-but Leon Henderson hinted last week that the U.S. might requisition tires from private cars to keep doctors, police, defense workers rolling. Well, you can take a taxi. No-taxi tires wear out too"; taximen predicted they'd be off the streets in a few months...
...Visiting Committee will include Robert H. Hallowell '96, Chairman; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '23; Langdon P. Marvin '98; Lieutenant Charles F. Adams, Jr., former Secretary of the Navy; Major General Roger W. Eckfeldt '12; Leon M. Little '10; and Brigadier General Oliver L. Spaulding...
...whispers how he dared to say this of the man whom Vichy had condemned to death. Did it mean that the carefully chosen Riom tribunal would actually allow a trial in the finest French tradition? Or did it mean that Vichy had forgotten that such men as Daladier and Leon Blum were uncontrollable hornets when let loose...
While lecturing the National Farm Institute about his inflation fears in Des Moines last week, Leon Henderson dropped some startling new statistics. This year, he said, national income will be around $102 billions, while available consumers' goods and services will amount to no more than $65 billions (in terms of 1941 prices). Normal savings, plus the taxes now contemplated, will sop up only $22 billions of the difference; the other $15 billions will be "rattling around with no place to go." The easiest place for the $15 billions to go, Henderson knew, was into higher prices...
...week's end there was no indication from Leon Henderson as to what he thought of N.R.D.G.A.'s proposals. Retailers showed notable self-restraint before Leon got his price powers; now that he has them, they hoped he would show the same...