Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the two campaigns diverged was on the issue of positive thinking. Republican Kyl bore down hard on Eisenhower's peace and prosperity, offered his own constructive solutions to the farm scandal (e.g., an acreage-retirement plan, which would pay the farmer a bushel of surplus corn for every bushel taken out of production). Gilmour stuck doggedly to the Benson issue. Said Farmer John Augustine, a Democrat: "Gilmour made a mistake in running against a straw man. He didn't have a positive thing...
...Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring on the greatest wheat glut of all. In Washington, Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans to "sell" Benson...
...would sooner eat a bushel of cranberry products that might be contaminated than smoke a cigarette...
...change, claimed its backers, would let wheat compete with corn as a feed grain, and weed out inefficient wheat producers. But chances are also good that the wheat states' big commercial growers would sow record crops if freed from controls and promised $1.30 for every bushel, thus adding to the bulging surplus...
There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...