Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curfew on gas stations in the East last week got startling results. The first was the discovery by the Government that instead of dropping, gasoline consumption rose an estimated 8%. The second was the discovery by the public that Government rationing had already arrived. Without warning, OPACS' Leon Henderson ordered oil companies to cut their deliveries to filling stations 10%. That did give motorists a jolt...
...gelatin-slick Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, who later became leader of Belgium's Fascist Rexists, left Belgium for Mexico to fight for civilization and against the persecution of Catholics. Later he published a book about his experiences. But the Belgian Minister to Mexico said that Leon Degrelle had never been there...
...overworked jaw of Leon Henderson, busy trying to talk prices down and a price control bill through Congress, President Roosevelt gave help this week. Invoking the amended Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (which previously had served as a basis for freezing Axis funds) the President issued an executive order clamping down hard on consumer credit...
Cowardice. Now came a price-control billj completely rewritten six times, amended countless times, mauled and slashed in last minute conferences between Congressional leaders and Price Boss Leon Henderson. By the time the miserable compromise dropped into the legislative hopper, its only teeth were false. No one apparently realized the basic fact that inflation is an overall thing, uncontrollable in bits & pieces. The bill authorized the President to establish maximum prices for any commodities on the basis of prevailing prices of July 29, adjustable according to other factors (speculative fluctuations, general cost increases, etc.). All prices thus established are finally...
...suggestion is to take off Leon Henderson's price ceilings ($20 a ton for No. 1 heavy melting scrap at Pittsburgh), let prices rise to a level where every U.S. junkman would lengthen his route and hours. But this suggestion comes mostly from scrap dealers, finds little support from steelmen such as Eugene Grace...