Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Pearl Harbor's ill bombing blew them some good. Captain Leland Pearson Lovette, whose destroyer was sunk at Pearl Harbor, was appointed assistant to Rear Admiral Hepburn, Chief of Navy Public Relations. He succeeds popular Commander Robert ("Bob") Berry, who will shortly return to active sea duty. "Leon" Lovette, a big, amiable Tennessean, headed Navy's Press Section from 1937 to 1940, has a lot of Washington newspaper friends to show...
...price-control law last week in effect legalized the 80 price ceilings Leon Henderson had issued under jawbone control, gave him power to enforce them. He can license anyone dealing in commodities over which he has set ceilings, put in-fractors out of business for twelve months after a single warning. Congress also gave him the power to buy, sell and subsidize scarce materials...
...World War I, the deadly dance of the prices doubled the war bill of the nation. With this grim lesson in mind, the Administration last April appointed bushel-bellied Leon Henderson as Price Boss. Henderson had no real authority to enforce his price ceilings-or at best, questionable authority. But he had seen the interrelated whole of U.S. industry from the topmost contemporary vantage point, the TNEC's two years and nine months of study. Backed by public opinion, Henderson kept prices down by bluff and loud talk...
...farm prices three alternative "floors'' were set up: 1) 110% of parity; 2) Oct. 1 or Dec. 15 market prices, whichever are higher; 3) the 1919-29 average price. Furthermore, Leon Henderson's ceiling, when set, is made subject to the veto of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. Further than that, the bill exempts from any price control any commodities now or in the future under marketing agreements-potatoes, tomatoes, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, walnuts, peas, cauliflower, onions, hops, plums, peaches, pears, grapes, fresh and evaporated milk...
Sugar ration cards were on Washington presses last week. "Within a few weeks," said Leon Henderson, consumers will be rationed to 50 lb. per person for 1942 (v. last year's consumption, including hoarding, of 74 lb.).* Industrial sugar users will also have to reduce their sugar use by about one third...