Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rising Above Principle." Benson has since done some zigzagging. In 1954, he issued orders that a farmer would have to comply with all acreage allotment rules and marketing quotas to get price supports on any of his crops, e.g., a wheat farmer who cut his acreage to get into the wheat support program could not turn around and plant an unsupported crop on the land and thus contribute to another surplus. Under pressure, Benson later canceled this "cross-compliance" order which, though difficult to administer, would have put sharp teeth in acreage control...
...Rationing Poverty." The high, rigid price supports that haunt Apostle Benson and the U.S. were adopted originally as a World War II incentive to greater production. After the war they were kept, theoretically to help the farmer make the transition back to peacetime. That they are no real help to the basic problem is easily demonstrable: more than 20% of the drop in the price of farm products occurred between February 1951 and January 1955, while high, rigid supports were in effect. As the worldwide demand for food fell off, the supports only encouraged production for the Government...
Despite his obvious hardships, Republican Anderson is not in a mood of revolt. Of Secretary Benson, he says with understanding, "I'd hate to have his job." Of President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill: "With everybody thinking he had to sign it because of politics, he proved to me that he done what he thought was the right thing...
...every farmer like Melvin Anderson, however, there is another of a different shade of opinion, ranging all the way to those who speak of both Eisenhower and Benson in four-letter words. With farms 93% electrified, with capital costs high, with a standard of living that reaches as high as television, big cars, fur stoles, and college educations for the children, farmers do not find it easy to reduce their standards as Anderson has done. Said a farmer in Corning, in southwest Iowa: "I was just looking at the month's electric bill- $30. Why that's what...
...bushel, 10? above the previously announced level, but 8? below last year. Nevertheless, many corn farmers seem to be pleased. At a Senate Republican Policy Committee meeting last week, a colleague turned to corn-growing Illinois' corn-saying Everett Dirksen and cracked: "Ev, it looks as if Benson, of all people in the world, just re-elected...