Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college tuition and, in many cases, Cadillacs. When farm prices began to slip early last year, the farmer began to fear that his newly found standard of living was slipping away too An understanding of the farmer's attitude was reflected in what Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a bitter foe of regimentation, had to say about the wheat vote: "Farmers have made a wise decision-a decision in their own best interests...
...Crop? Next week, for the first time since 1942, U.S. wheat farmers will vote on whether they want marketing quotas imposed on next year's crop. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is basically against controls, but the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act forced him to employ the marketing restriction because of the huge supply. Benson has fixed 62 million acres as the maximum U.S. wheat acreage for 1954, compared to 78 million this year. The Department of Agriculture is setting farm-by-farm acreage allotments. The average cut for wheat farmers...
Said the Ford Foundation's Robert Hutchins: "The patriotism of the Los Angeles school board was so intense that it developed an X-ray eye that enabled it to see Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Donald David of the Harvard School of Business, and the other men who dominate the Ford Foundation as Communist agents...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who believes that free markets are best for farmers, last week had to swallow a bitter pill. He restricted plantings for next year's wheat crop to 62 million acres, down 20% from this year's planting, and thus imposed the first acreage controls on wheat in three years. He also ordered a vote by the nation's farmers on whether marketing quotas should be imposed, the first such poll in eleven years. If two-thirds of the farmers approve the quotas, as expected, they may sell only as much as they...
...Benson was forced to act under the present farm law, which requires a quota proclamation if indicated wheat supplies are 20% above "normal" domestic and foreign demand. Just the day before, Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill to raise the minimum permissible acreage from 55 million to 62 million acres. Benson said he set the 1954 allotment at the new minimum because the indicated wheat supply would set a record high...