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Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is well aware that the U.S. needs a more effective and better integrated policy for selling its agricultural surpluses abroad. To this end, both Secretary Benson and General Foods' ex-Chairman Clarence Francis, head of a surplus disposal committee, are hard at work. But with farm output steadily rising throughout the world, the prospect is growing dimmer and dimmer that the answer to the U.S. surplus problem is the disposal of food abroad...
Died. Joseph F. Cullman Jr., 72, president of Cullman Brothers, Inc., director and chairman of the executive committee of Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc.; in Manhattan. Cullman added Benson & Hedges to the family interests in 1941, built up B. & H.'s Parliament brand into the first nationally known filter cigarette. In 1953 he negotiated a merger with Philip Morris...
...been cleared in another agency, his chief should consult the other agency "to avoid conflicting evaluations." This is an obvious outgrowth of the Ladejinsky case (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), in which Agricultural Attache Wolf Ladejinsky, long since cleared by the State Department, was fired by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, rehired by Harold Stassen...
WHEAT GLUT is still growing, will push up another 75 million bu. by the end of fiscal 1955, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson. Estimated total for Benson's No. 1 surplus headache: 975 million bu., most of it in Government storage bins...
COTTON EXPORTS in 1955 will jump 500,000 bales or 20% over last year, predicts Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Because of the new law that permits sales of U.S. farm goods abroad for foreign currency, a deal to sell 50,000 bales to Yugoslavia has already been wrapped up, and another for 175,000 bales to Japan will soon be signed...