Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles S. Benson, assistant professor of Education, in a report submitted to the Massachussetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action at a convention yesterday, said that expansion of industry in the state has placed a heavy demand on the school system to provide more and better-educated workers...
...Benson asserted that the demand should be met by increasing the number of teachers, rather than by crowding classrooms, and that the 25% raise would make it possible to attract more and better instructors...
...Nebraska's Third District, following a hard-fought battle between two candidates who both favored the Bricker amendment and opposed foreign aid northeast Nebraska's drought-suffering farmers blamed their misfortune on Ezra Benson-Backer Robert D. Harrison, 59. Democrat Lawrence Brock shocked Republican Nebraska by winning the home vote, 61,295 to 60,166. But when 3,500 absentee ballots had been opened. Republican Harrison won his fourth term by a narrow...
...groceries at retail stores. Grocers would redeem the stamps with the Government. They argue that a stamp plan would be cheaper and make it easier to keep the cheaters out, but thus far, the Department of Agriculture has cast a cold eye on the plan, and Secretary Benson has called it "unfeasible." Chief reason: a stamp plan would not necessarily drain off major surplus items, might become a permanent relief measure...
PORK PRICES will be boosted by new Government buying program. Including current lard purchases, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson will make $100 million available immediately to buy pork for school-lunch programs and other nonprofit uses. As result, pork prices, which had slipped below $15 per hundredweight for first time since March, spurted ahead last week to $15.50 per hundredweight...