Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the word "rubber"' out of the U.S. language last week. All the gold in Fort Knox (some $14,500,000,000) could not bring enough rubber from the Jap-infested Far East to satisfy the U.S. demand (50,000 tons a month). Price Boss Leon Henderson ruled that the nation's "average" motorists-including traveling salesmen, taxi drivers, and isolated countrysiders without other means of transportation-may not buy new tires. Only exemptions: medicos and their aides, ambulances, fire fighters, police services, garbage trucks, mail trucks, public busses carrying at least ten persons, ice-&-fuel delivery, farm...
...Philosopher John Dewey's Commission after a minute scrutiny of the evidence, held that the first two Moscow trials were frame-ups, that Leon Trotsky and his son Sedov had not been implicated as charged. But the Commission's findings did not exclude the possibility that some sort of treasonable activity had occurred...
...Leon Henderson, in character, opposed the increase as inflationary. He was particularly afraid of its effect on raw material and farm prices, where a 10% increase in freight costs may be pyramided on its way to the consumer...
...court, Government prosecutors unveiled a picture of the late Leon Trotsky, a red flag, stacks of books and pamphlets by Trotsky, Lenin, Marx. These could be considered as determining the defendants' state of mind ruled Judge Matthew M. Joyce. Said he: "In his early days Hitler wandered around in a greasy old overcoat and was belittled." Government witnesses, most of them faded or redyed Trotskyites, declared that...
...Leon Henderson for the first time made public his utter dissatisfaction with the emasculated House price-control bill. To prevent inflation he said he needed at least two powers which the House refused him: 1) power to buy & sell commodities, (to avoid the "bulk-line," or one-high-price system of World War I); 2) power to license, without which "price control is virtually impossible where the number of sellers is large"-e.g., in the retail field...