Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Leon Henderson's wholesale price ceiling went into effect, the U.S. entered into a controlled economy which made the old NRA strait jacket look like a sport shirt. Next week the retail ceiling will follow; the strait jacket will be laced...
...Baldwin, L.I., with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president and general manager, was also a Cornell man, a onetime Marine passionately interested in Army fighting planes-a man who couldn't work with his coat on. W. T. ("Bill") Schwendler, chief engineer, turned out to be one of the crack aeronautical engineers...
...Merry-Go-Round column went after the isolationist press, Cissie began to cool toward Pearson & Allen. This spring she fired Pearson's present wife, Luvie Moore, a member of the Times-Herald staff who had been one of her close friends. She also fired Drew's brother Leon, a Times-Herald columnist. Adding insult to injury, she hired Luvie's former husband George Abell, the one man Drew and Luvie can not abide...
This time, when Leon Henderson called the three gallons for the nonessential motorist "a damned sight more than he's entitled to," nobody laughed. The song faded from the heart, Pollyannery from the head. Now the citizenry learned again the truth about total war: no matter how bad the experts say things are going to be, they turn out worse...
There were few incurable optimists left. When Leon Henderson said that the U.S. would be back to 1932 living standards within 15 months, nobody doubted him in the least, although they knew that 1943's depression would be of a different kind. The U.S. citizen, having learned his lesson that the worst was nearly always true, was ready to believe that 1932 would soon look like the good old days...