Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ezra Taft Benson was asked to become Secretary of Agriculture last fall, he told Dwight Eisenhower: "General, no salary in the world could persuade me to take the job." Benson began to give Ike his reasons. First, he had not supported the Eisenhower nomination, had been for his distant cousin. Bob Taft, instead. Well, said Eisenhower, so were a lot of other patriotic Americans. Secondly, said Benson, he had often voiced doubts as to whether a military man should be in the White House. Answered Eisenhower: All the more reason to get good civilians in the Cabinet-like Benson...
When Jacqueline Benson was born at St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago, the doctor did not dare take time to weigh her. Three months premature, she could be carried in a man's cupped hand; she was rushed into an incubator. Even so, she was so tiny-an estimated 12 oz.-that there were no precedents whatever for expecting her to live. But live Jackie Benson did, thanks largely to the devoted day & night care of Nurse Katherine Gallagher...
When he took office, said Benson, the Government owned 37 million lbs. of butter, 7 million lbs. of cheese, 56 million lbs. of dried milk. This supercolossal milk bar had been assembled to help the farmer and the industry maintain prices. But what was the actual effect of the Government program? The dairy industry was losing the public market because of "abnormally high prices" maintained by the Government. Benson cited the decline in butter and the use of competitive substitutes such as margarine and other spreads. In ten years, he pointed out, butter sales per consumer had dropped almost...
...Expanding Market. "It has become too easy," said Benson, "to merely spend taxpayers' money to bolster markets." He called upon the dairymen to meet the challenge facing their industry, to convert their "problems" into "opportunities," to improve techniques, to cut costs and thereby lower prices, to seek new outlets. "No industry thrives on a shrinking volume of business. We need an expanding, growing market ... If the Government still owns any appreciable amount of butter when 1954 arrives, I hope all of us will frankly admit our failures...
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