Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replaced O'Neal with Allan Blair Kline, a prosperous Iowa hog farmer (who had managed well enough during the Depression to build a swimming pool on his farm). Kline damned controls, helped kill the Brannan Farm Plan and then helped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson push a flexible price-support law through Congress this year. Last week at the Farm Bureau's annual convention at New York, President Kline announced he was resigning because of ill health. In this change of leadership, however, there would be no change of policy...
...last week's convention the bureau showed how deeply it feels its responsibility for a sane farm policy. Although it is solidly behind Benson, it scolded him in a resolution for removing "cross-compliance" regulations, which prohibit farmers who accept high support prices and quotas on one money crop from diverting acres made idle by their quotas to other surplus crops. The provision has been unpopular with some farmers and Farm Bloc Congressmen, but the Farm Bureau feared its loss would swell surpluses. The convention also resolved to oppose any attempt to revive high, rigid supports. As Benson himself...
...President named Dodge as chairman of a new Council on Foreign Economic Policy, whose other members will be Secretary of State Dulles, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Weeks, Agriculture Secretary Benson, FOAdministrator Stassen and three top White House aides...
COTTON-PRICE PROPS will probably be held at 90% of parity again next year, providing farmers vote to approve an 18.1 million-acre planting allotment as expected. Agriculture Secretary Benson has all but promised farmers that he will keep props high, although he could push them down to 82.5% under the new flexible price law. However, if farmers turn down acreage quotas in their vote this week, the props will automatically drop...
...White House last week, President Eisenhower held a special luncheon for dairymen and heads of civic organizations. The purpose of the luncheon, featuring dishes prepared with milk, was to help the crusade of Agriculture Secretary Benson to increase milk consumption. Even though the U.S. expects a 5.5 billion Ib. milk surplus this year, Americans, by and large, do not drink all the milk they need. But the Eisenhower-Benson campaign alone is not enough to increase milk-drinking. The big reason U.S. milk consumption is no higher is that milk markets all over the nation have been saddled with monopolistic...