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Nobody worries more, in public, about how to keep the U.S. farmer prosperous than Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan. His chief worry at the moment, Brannan told Senators last week, was whether the Agriculture Department has enough money on hand to support farm crops next year. If crops should be only a little bit bigger than expected, said he, price supports would cost at least $1 billion more than estimated. Just to keep on the safe side, said Brannan, Congress should add another $2 billion to the department's purse of $4.75 billion for the support program...
...Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
Because poultry raisers had increased their flocks, to cash in on support prices, and the warm winter had increased egg production unseasonally, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan said he had "no alternative." By thus permitting prices to drop, he hoped to step up egg-eating. This week the department began to support eggs at a new level of 37? a dozen v. the 45? average last year. It looked as though even the Department of Agriculture was finally being forced to try a freer market to ease the enormous farm surpluses...
Even before the opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
...plain that the whole support program was rapidly becoming unworkable. The spotty attempts to control crops by cutting acreage had flopped. Despite such cuts, farm mechanization, better planting and fertilizing techniques had pushed harvests to the point where ever-increasing surpluses seemed inevitable. When Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan brought out a new plan of control which would, in effect, have permitted the Government to fix the size of the farmer's income right down to the dollar, the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation revolted. It denounced the plan as a "nationalization of agriculture and the distribution system...