Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Churning Disaster. All of the plans under consideration have their shortcomings, and all of them would milk the U.S. Treasury to some degree. But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his staff know that they will have to choose some way of dumping the surplus within the next few months. Chief reason: despite careful refrigeration and some turnover in the stock, the stored butter will soon begin to go rancid...
...annual meeting in Atlantic City, the National Lutheran Council, representing 4,500,000 members in eight church groups, called upon the U.N. General Assembly to request the Arab countries and Israel to meet at a peace table. The council, which re-elected Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis president for his second one-year term, also heard a report from its Latin American division calling for a"full-scale spiritual invasion" of the Roman Catholic countries of Latin America...
...price, Andreas offered about 50? a Ib. Though Benson has sold some of his butter to the U.S. Army for 15?, the Government actually paid dairymen 67? for it, and butter is now costing U.S. housewives upwards of 70?. Should the U.S. subsidize the Russians...
Still pending, however, was Andreas' offer to take cottonseed oil off Benson's hands at 12½? per Ib., a price at which the U.S. has sold before. Since cottonseed oil is not directly a consumer product, there may be less domestic pressure to deny the Russians a bargain...
Meanwhile Russian domkhosiayki (housewives) would not get any fine U.S. butter, and Ezra Benson was still stuck with...