Brickbats & Kisses

Price Boss Leon Henderson, trying hard to keep his ceilings in repair, had a week of ups & downs. The War Labor Board, in the Little Steel case, created a new burst of purchasing power for him to worry about. There his only consolation was that the board might have done worse. But he also got a little help.

>> The Senate approved a $125,000,000 appropriation for his price hawks and rationing administrators: $50,000,000 more than an unfriendly House had doled out, and nearly as much as Henderson thinks he needs. Henderson had won an important point: he got his money without giving in to Congressmen who wanted political OPAppointments.

>> RFC agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2 1/2-c--a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak.

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