Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead was the personal income-tax rate. Still under consideration was Secretary Morgenthau's newest proposal: to have all who file a return pay a $5 head tax. The sales tax was asleep under an anesthetic that might wear off at any moment. Latest anesthetist was Price Boss Leon Henderson, who argued that the heaviest burden of a sales tax would fall on "persons whose standard of living is already below safe levels." But, while no one wanted to wreak injury on the very lowest income group, most New Dealers now argued that a sales tax was perhaps...
...basic "A" ration of three gallons per week until then, if too many did not ask for more. Too many apparently did. The meek, mild Milquetoasts who took the basic "A" cards totaled only 20% in some areas, less than 25% in the 17 States as a whole. (Leon Henderson had figured on 337%.) Some favorite chiseling dodges...
...shape, irate Association for the Prevention of a Race Track in Camden County petitioned the War Production Board to freeze the essential war materials being squandered on a "gamblers' dream." WPB investigated- not once but twice-found that no priorities had been violated, no vital labor absorbed. Said Leon Henderson: "The people who are building the track are quite ingenious." Indeed they are. All Garden State's structural materials had been purchased before Pearl Harbor; 60% of the metal was secondhand, the second-hand "Lai-lies" (concrete-filled steel cylinders) used in place of steel columns are unsuitable...
...lonely, stubborn champion of "volun-tary" war bond sales, Henry Morgenthau last week saw ominous clouds of opposition gathering. Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve, Harold Smith of the Budget Bureau, Leon Henderson of OPA had ganged up against him, to champion forced savings. So Henry the Morgue pondered his own dozen schemes for raising money the voluntary way and took stock of results to date. In the twelve months to the end of April, the Federal debt had increased $17 billions. That was a fair measure of Henry's success in selling Treasury securities. Only...
Coffee, as typical of U.S. life as gasoline, will soon be rationed. Leon Henderson promised as much last week; U.S. housewives have long guessed it from the state of their grocers' shelves. Even No. 1 U.S. coffee merchant A. & P. had to turn away customers from many stores, finally borrowed some Colombian coffee stored on Staten Island. The stuff got so scarce that huge General Foods slapped a temporary embargo on Maxwell House last month, had to refuse to make any deliveries until a few days ago. Like sugar and gasoline, the coffee shortage is really a transportation shortage...