Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Congress convened with a farm bill as its main political goal, the U.S. had a new agricultural program. President Eisenhower, who vetoed the self-contradictory farm bill first passed by Congress (TIME, April 23), signed the new one last week-and within three days Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson began putting it into effect...
After a conference with the President, Ezra Benson announced plans for making immediate soil-bank payments to farmers who withdraw land from crop production this year. Benson's move was specifically authorized by the new bill, although Congress had refused to go along with the Administration's request for 1956 payments to farmers contracting to enter the soil-bank program in 1957. Benson's schedule of payments was generous: if based on the average yield over the last five years, it would offer $22 for each acre of wheat withheld from production (estimated per acre market value...
...mood of Congress has changed since President Eisenhower vetoed the first farm bill last month. Prodded by mail from home, Congressmen have been seeking the quickest approach to a bill the President will sign. The Senate bill, which has the qualified approval of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, contains many of the provisions the President had hoped for when his veto sent Congress back for another try. However, it fails him on some points, e.g., although it would create a $1.2 billion soil bank, it would not provide any payments this year to pump cash into the farm economy...
Most of the first words were wieldy enough, at least to Melody: conductor, scientist, julep. Almost as fast as Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman rolled them off his 670-word list, they were shot back, letter-perfect, in Southern drawls, crisp New England accents or Midwestern twangs. Then one boy spelled ardent with an a, and a 14-year-old girl had the same trouble with lavender, ending with ar. Another victim spelled conscientious with a c instead of t. Clyde W. Dawson, 13, of New Mexico, tacked an se to the end of incandescence, and in a real gone voice...
...Republicans were handed a time bomb when they entered office and had to spend the first two years simply putting out the brush fires of their predecessors," Benson added...