Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last, Agriculture Secretary Benson handed Nixon a penknife, and the Vice President liberated Hagerty by cutting a slit in his trousers. Nixon announced that the lure, formerly known as the "Hula Diver," would henceforth be called the "Hagerty Snag...
...strange that I have hurried here . . . We are not going to wait until the last cow has starved to death until something is done. Something is going to be done now." The President assured his hearers that he would act promptly on emergency recommendations of Agriculture Secretary Benson and the governors. As he climbed back into his plane, the President had a word of regret for Texas: "I'm sorry I didn't bring any rain...
AGRICULTURE Secretary Benson, who has already put acreage controls on next year's wheat crop, may have to restrict 1954 corn plantings as well. On top of big surpluses, farmers are expected to harvest more than 3.3 billion bushels of corn, the second largest crop on record...
...wheat-quota decision is only one instance in which Secretary Benson has been forced to sacrifice principle. He is the victim of an ever-mounting headache created by high, rigid price supports. The supports encourage farmers to overproduce; overproduction menaces prices; falling prices lead to more support and/or quota restrictions on production. Because of falling prices and the demands of dairy farmers, Benson continued dairy price supports at 90% of parity. As a result of the drought in the Southwest, he moved in to hold up the cattle market. To prevent a glut in cotton, he will almost certainly have...
While Ezra Taft Benson still has a longing eye on the free-market goal, the weather, declining exports and an inherited farm program (which the Eisenhower Administration has made no move to change) are pushing him rapidly in the other direction...