Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effectiveness of price-control seems conclusively proven by this time. In his testimony before the Committee, Leon Henderson, federal price-administrator, pointed out that in the 12 of the 28 basic commodities which have already been placed under price-control, the index had shown a decrease of 2.4 points during a given period. At the same time, prices in the uncontrolled division had risen from 154 points to 168, with foodstuffs rising some 10 points higher...
WASHINGTON -- Automobile production in January, 1942 was ordered cut today "at least" 51 per cent below output in January, 1941, by Civilian Supply Chief Leon Henderson, who warned leaders of the Industry that shortage of materials may operate to force even steeper curtailment...
...committee had begun hearings with little respect either for Leon Henderson or for economic law. The Great Jawbone had hammered into their skulls a profound respect for himself-but the committee as a whole still had little respect for economics. Many of them privately agreed that a little inflation was probably a good thing; most agreed that snow would fly before they got down to cases on ways and means to control skyrocketing prices, which are daily costing the defense program (and the taxpayers) millions of dollars, inevitably pulling down the standard of living, setting in motion a vicious spiral...
...Leon Trotsky wrote these words about the defense of Leningrad in October 1919, when the Whites were pressing the Seventh Red Army northward into the city. But the words echoed like a great roar in the labyrinth last week...
...Leon Henderson ripped the seat out of his pants getting out of an automobile, stood with his back to the wall at a party. A nightclub comic threw a glass of ice water in Heckler Jack Oakie's face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...