Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase over total cotton sales in 1955-56 by doubling exports to 4,500,000 bales while keeping domestic consumption at last year's 9,200,000-bale level or even increasing it. With flexible price supports between 75% and 90% of parity, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson hopes that minimum acreage allotments (17.4 million acres in 1957) and marketing quotas (n million bales) will hold next year's crop to 13 million bales, or about this year's level. Furthermore, under the new soil-bank program Benson hopes that farmers will increase the number of acres...
...outlined by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, the agreement calls for India to pay about $200 million for 130 million bu. of U.S. wheat (more than 15% of the U.S. surplus), $70 million for 500,000 bales of cotton, $26.4 million for 440 million Ibs. of rice (more than 20% of the total U.S. Government rice stocks), $6,000,000 for 6,000,000 Ibs. of tobacco and $3,500,000 for dairy products...
...Soviet Union's efforts to encourage nationalization of industry and agriculture in India (TIME, Aug. 20). Summed up a State Department official: "We get rid of our surpluses, we create a future demand, we help a critical country build." With the Indian agreement signed and sealed, Ezra Benson turned to the next items on his surplus-slicing agenda: similar but smaller deals with Pakistan and Brazil, designed to help them...
...parity, aim toward 100% of parity with a variety of proposals for more federal farm legislation. (Notably avoided: any mention of the ill-famed Brannan Plan, long the official policy of the Truman Administration.) The Republicans stand by the farm policies of Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, favor a "versatile, flexible program to meet . . . rapidly changing conditions" and "full freedom instead of ... more regimentation...
Circus-minded Robert Kerr of Oklahoma found a niche in his political sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...