Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm problem moved toward a decision on Capitol Hill last week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
With that, Texas Democrat Bob Poage and Secretary Benson were set to musing...
...Benson: He probably was a Republican...
...Pays? Caught in this predicament, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week, as several times before, sought to pin some of the blame for low farm prices on the meat packing industry. Said he, at a San Francisco gathering of the Western States Meat Packers Association: "Last August the packing industry granted wage increases equal to roughly a $50 million annual boost. Who paid for the increase? The evidence is that most of it was paid by ranchers and farmers-who paid by taking lower prices for meat animals." As evidence. Benson cited Agriculture Department figures showing that...
...Benson believes that the widening spread between farm and retail prices is due not only to increased handling costs but to a bigger cut to the middlemen. From the first quarter of 1955 to the end of the year, the average price paid to farmers for choice beef cattle dropped $4.15 per 100 Ibs. But only $1.57 of this saving was passed on to consumers in the form of price cuts. The rest of the difference was soaked up by an increase in the shares of the middlemen; packers and wholesalers increased their take per pound by $1.08, while retailers...