Word: leon
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Summed up Oklahoma's Mike Monroney: "This bill gives Price Boss Leon Henderson the right to regulate everything except inflation...
...member of a swing band, one of the gravest risks you run is of being killed in an automobile accident. DEATH TOLL SHOCKS BIZ headlined Variety last week. Latest death, after a crash near Conneaut, Ohio, was that of Leon ("Chu") Berry, one of the best hot saxophonists in the business. The musicians' union recently tried to reduce casualties by limiting jumps between dates to 400 miles a day. But with Berry's death the toll of bandsmen fatalities reached more than 100 this year. The hazard is not just a matter of long drives between engagements...
...chief criticism of our defense program so far has been its lack of coordination and planning. The Ways and Means Committee doesn't get together with Leon Henderson's Price Fixing office, the price fixers are still at odds with the priorities people, and the President has to set up a special Office of Facts just to keep the multifarious defense agencies informed about each other's activities. Perhaps the most important reason for this confusion is a lack of perspective, and Professor Harris' "Economics of American Defense" attempts to remedy this by presenting an integrated picture of the defense...
...Because Leon Henderson removed its price ceiling, the long slumbering cotton grey goods market woke up with a bang last week. In only two days an estimated 25,000,000-30,000,000 yards of print cloths -more than a week's capacity production -were sold in Manhattan's Worth Street, biggest volume since July. By week's end the huge cotton textile industry had hung the "Sold Out" sign on 90% of its fourth-quarter output; many mills (especially those making tough work-clothing denims) were booked through Lincoln's birthday...
This odd scheme marks the end of a four-month fight between Leon Henderson and the cotton mills, is one of the biggest pieces of humble pie Leon has yet eaten. When he fixed his original textile ceiling, Henderson had his eye on cotton speculators (among them the mills), overlooked the fact that in the long run prices of cotton and cotton goods go together like Mutt & Jeff. Before the revisions, the basic goods ceiling was 43?. But this price was set in July when cotton was 1-2? cheaper than it has been since. Thus for months the cotton...