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...million purchase of New Zealand butter...
...President Eisenhower to adopt it. The milkmen were escorted by none other than Vermont's Senator George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The blend plan, like each of the others, has its opponents. Among them: some big buttermen, who think that it might permanently undermine the butter price structure...
After last month's furor about whether surplus butter should be sold to Russia (TIME, Jan. 25), official Washington realizes that bargain butter will have to be passed to U.S. housewives first. Nonetheless, the Administration is studying some plans to dispose of the surplus abroad when the foreign consumers' turn at the table comes. Under one butter-for-guns proposal, the U.S. would use butter to pay some overseas defense costs...
...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...
...Butter is not the only surplus milk product stacked up in U.S. warehouses. Also on the shelves are 271 million lbs. of Cheddar cheese, 449 million Ibs. of dried milk. Total value of butter, cheese and milk: $358 million...