Farm prices have stolen a backward march on Leon Henderson, have declined without waiting for a ceiling to be clamped on them. Wheat last week was down 15¢ a bushel from the 1942 high; corn, 5¢; rye, 28/5 soybeans, 27¢; cotton, 2¢: a pound; eggs, 4¢ a dozen.
Before Leon set up his general price top two months ago, he had bellowed time & again that price control could not work unless farm prices were included too. But farm prices, after soaring 44% in the 13 months ending last January, have just wound...
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