Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson summoned his 24-man Egg Advisory Committee to Washington to hear poultrymen's demands for support buying of both chickens and eggs. But after the meeting the committee announced that it "believes in selfhelp, leaving to the industry the solution of its own problems...
...feel he is encouraging regimentation when he states that the majority of farmers want to be regimented. We are of the opinion that since the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture received federal funds he is in a way a subordinate of Secretary Benson and his attack on Mr. Benson's policies as early as April 1953 before Benson had time to be judged right or wrong were out of place...
...Said Benson: "There is going to be greater emphasis placed upon price and less on controls as a means of adjusting production ... I have never liked total acreage allotments ... I said so [when the allotment program was announced] in June...
...Benson also announced...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, and Actress Eva Marie Saint...