Word: bensonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming after a winter of steadily falling prices, the Administration's latest model farm program is understandably a marked change from past versions. The optimism that garnished last year's announcement of Secretary Benson's "flexible parity" program is missing from the latest blurbs. As Benson himself told the House Agriculture Committee last week, the new program has very limited objectives: a short-term easing of the problem of over-production and a new approach to disposal of surpluses...
...heart of the measure is the so-called soil bank, through which the government would pay farmers for taking land out of production and putting it into soil-building grasses or leaving it fallow. On paper, this seems like the panacea Benson has so urgently sought during the past three years. Like most panaceas, however, its chances of working are slim...
Soil-Bank Plan. The heart of the President's program, Benson testified, is the "soil-bank" plan, designed to cut plantings of wheat and cotton by perhaps 20%. The bank would consist of an "acreage reserve" and a "conservation reserve," which would cost the taxpayers $1 billion over the next three years. Farmers choosing to join the acreage reserve would take specific acres temporarily out of production, receiving compensation based on a percentage of the normal yield. Compensation would be paid, Benson testified, in a novel way: the farmers would get certificates redeemable by the Commodity Credit Corp...
...Benson also recommended a vigorous effort to dispose of the surpluses already held by the U.S., even by selling or bartering in the grain-short Communist colonies of Eastern Europe. His program also included a proposal to help some 1.5 million low-income farmers to improve their farming efficiency or, failing that, to aid them in their transition to non-farm employment...
...Three -and - a -half -month -old Daniel Patrick Benson, believed to be the first child ever born with polio in the U.S., was reported showing improvement as he posed for his first photograph with his mother, Mrs. Patricia Benson, a 26-year-old Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb...