Word: brannans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also urged expansion of social-security coverage and benefits, further rural electrification, federal aid to states for "subsistence, shelter and medical care." It urged freer world trade but it insisted that U.S. industry and farmers be protected from the products of "underpaid foreign labor." It stoutly opposed the Brannan Plan but it promised the farmer "fair" support prices...
...Department of Agriculture had 25 million bushels of hot potatoes on its hands. It had already, at a total cost of $35 million, given away all it could - to deserving institutions, school-lunch programs and overseas relief. To give the rest away, complained Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan dolorously, would cost the Government another $15 million...
Putting the problem to Congress, Char lie Brannan was too politic to remind its members of what they already knew too well: the potato glut was its baby. The Senate Agriculture Committee handed it back to Brannan, who decided to save the $15 million and dump the spuds...
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...
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...