Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general remark that good progress was being made toward means to avert inflation, and newshawks put this together with previous dope stories that New York's Judge Rosenman had already submitted a tentative plan built around the formation of an Economic Stabilization Authority. To it might be named Leon Henderson, William H. Davis, Marriner Eccles, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Claude Wickard and a chairman appointed by the President...
...raise most limits set in May by the General Maximum Price Regulation. This move, which will increase the housewife's budget, as well as the cost of war production, has long been predicted as inevitable in view of the ridiculously small powers so far given to Price Administrator Leon Henderson...
...Retail price ceilings have been clapped on lamb, which was exempted last April because it was then so far below parity. When there was not enough beef and pork to go around, housewives took lamb, bid up the price so fast that Leon Henderson thought...
...forbids putting any ceiling on farm products below 110% of parity. So far, no farm ceiling has been imposed at any level, but last week, with steers and hogs fetching over 130% and 125% of parity, Leon asked the Secretary of Agriculture about price-fixing to ease pressure on packers and butchers. Claude Wickard recognized a hot potato when he saw it, decided to let it cool a while...
...checks in Alaska are no longer settled with bags of Klondike gold, but pennies are still so scarce in the Territory that last week Leon Henderson had to modify his general maximum price order, froze Alaskan prices to the nearest nickel instead of the nearest cent...