Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HILMA BENSON Pontiac, Mich...
...Labor Department's $418 million budget. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Folsom is fighting hard for the endangered $451 million school-aid program. Last week Postmaster General Summerfield reported that his estimate of the 1958 Post Office deficit had swelled rather than shrunk since January. Secretary Benson gloomily announced that he saw "no alternative" but to spend the massive $5.3 billion requested by the Agriculture Department to keep the farmers happy. Secretary Wilson told a press conference that it would take "a lot of work" to hold Defense costs within the whopping $38 billion budgeted...
This continuing cost-price squeeze on agriculture chilled but did not demolish the optimism that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been displaying about farm prospects. Benson still insists that farmers stand to average somewhat higher prices and incomes than in 1956. Buttressing his opinion were some hopeful facts. Hog and cattle prices are better than last year; the broiler industry appears to be overcoming a surplus problem, and dairymen are producing and selling more than last year. The Government's price-depressing hoard of surplus wheat, cotton and corn is slowly being whittled away. And this year farmers...
...parity ratio continues to fall, both sides believe that Benson may have to change his tune-and his policies...
...Benson said only that "state contributions to date have been very small in relation to federal expenditures...