Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first words that rolled off the tongue of Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman (accurate . . . alliance . . . ambitious) should have been easy. But to Sandra's great surprise, one girl spelled dessert with an "i." After that, 100 words passed without a slip. Then one twelve-year-old spelled solicit with an "s" instead of "c." After that, the heads began to roll faster...
...biggest wheat user. The rest would have to be upgraded by blending it with strong-gluten wheat.* But there is comparatively little strong-gluten wheat available with which to do the blending. Said Nebraska Wheat Farmer Herb Hughes, member of a five-man board that advises Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson on the operations of the Commodity Credit Corp.: the breadmaking quality of the Government's stockpile is "fantastic and deplorable." This week Secretary Benson was scheduled to go to Hutchinson, Kans. for a conference with some 5,000 farmers, millers and bakers to outline an incentive plan under which...
FARM SURPLUS has been whittled in a $5,800,000 deal with Argentina. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has sold off about 44 million Ibs. of surplus cottonseed oil, nearly 15% of the total 260 million Ibs. the Government bought under price props...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week gave a progress report on his program to shrink the mountain of surplus U.S. dairy products by lower price supports and a huge giveaway program. Lower price supports so spurred consumption that Benson was able to cut new purchases of butter by 45%, of cheese by 66%, of dried milk by 21%. Under the giveaway program, the U.S. in 1954 distributed a total 1.7 billion Ibs. of excess butter, cheese and dried milk, much of it free to welfare agencies at home and abroad, treble the amount disposed of in 1953. Together...
...Agriculture Department worried. Estimates are that this year's crop will be down 17% from last year's 790,700,000 bu. and 25% below the ten-year average, largely because of acreage cutbacks and a severe drought in the Texas-Nebraska wheat belt. Agriculture Secretary Benson is afraid that farmers will vote down controls this year, thus kick over high price supports in favor of higher acreage...