Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back deals were arranged ahead of time, explained Agriculture Secretary Benson, in the hope that cheese processors would wait until April 1 before cutting milk prices paid to farmers. But cheese-men began trimming milk prices well ahead of time, so Benson's kindheartedness did the farmers little good...
...about 60% in a year. Congress passed a new law permitting "limited" supports. Then producers and their Senators (chiefly Idaho's Republican Herman Welker and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith) began to urge the Department of Agriculture to have another helping of potatoes. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson firmly declined, suggested that growers cut production. But as prices fell and pressure mounted, Benson yielded. Last week he announced that the Department will 1) buy a limited amount of potatoes for school lunch and welfare use, 2) pay a subsidy of 35? a hundredweight to divert potatoes into starch...
...Although Benson promised that he would not buy any potatoes to throw away (as was done in 1950), not even all potato growers were happy about his decision. As he was announcing his plan, he got a telegram from the Wisconsin Potato Growers Association: "Historically, any Government aid to potato prices has led to surpluses, public resentment and lowered per capita consumption. Please do not put the kiss of death on this next potato crop by providing any form of potato price support...
Meet the Press (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). With Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson...
...British experiments with a federal commission adjusting support rates as necessary prove successful, perhaps Benson's principle of flexibility can be combined with subsidy payments to give protection to the perishable crops. In such a program economic problems in government purchases and the free-enterprise objections to imposed quotas might be avoided...