Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Boss Leon Henderson told the committeemen: twelve of the 28 basic commodities were already subjected to price control. The price index of the controlled twelve had dropped 2.4 points; the uncontrolled had leaped from 154.9 points to 168. While the committee argued, basic foodstuffs had risen from 159.9 to 172.2. Said Henderson with ironic innocence, as if he were not spanking the committee...
...convened for the war games in Louisiana. A good many of them were veterans of the maneuver circuit, having followed the Armies in preliminary exercises in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana. Some were veterans of the real thing-among them U.P.'s Richard Hottelet, fresh from a German prison, and Leon Kay, who saw the Nazi invasions of the Low Countries and the Balkans; CBS's tall, handsome Eric Sevareid, who arrived from London with a group of British observers...
...long bout of Leon Henderson v. Bill Knudsen over control of automobile production, SPAB stepped in, stopped the fight, raised Leon's arm. Henceforth Henderson has full authority over quotas for automobiles and all other consumers' durable goods. This week he used his new powers to set the December quota at 204,848 passenger cars, 48.4% under December...
Department-store-keepers have another edge over most businessmen: they need not fret about prices. As everyone knows-including Leon Henderson-it would be virtually impossible to enforce retail price ceilings in the stores without a Gestapo (or even with one). Consumers thus far have ignored all price increases. Storekeepers' only real worry is inventories. By next spring their shelves will probably be bare of certain types of durable goods, and there will be no way to replace them...
...Washington, Price Policeman Leon Henderson said he had never heard of the scheme, predicted: "We'll take care of that." But Leon has not indicated he will disapprove $131 to $202 price increases on the new Buicks. Unless he changes his mind about Buick, he must logically assent to similar boosts on other makes, regardless of who does the boosting...