Word: dairymen
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...cotton planters were convinced that they had a legitimate grievance. Coloring is common in other foods; even butter is often colored. But the cotton planters had always lacked enough political support to outlobby the Midwest dairymen. At their convention, the planters sealed a pact with representatives of Midwest soybean farmers, who sell soybean oil to margarine makers. With Southern Democrats to support cotton men and soybean farmers pressuring Midwest Congressmen, planters thought they had a good chance to get the tax killed. Cried white-haired Charles G. Henry, council chairman of the margarine committee: "We are finally going to beat...
...Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, representing some 50% of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, thought it had done such a smart piece of work that it bragged of it. The league proudly admitted that it had rigged New York's butter market (TIME, Jan. 6) in December to keep milk prices up. (Under a federal-state marketing formula, this milkshed's January prices would largely be determined by the prices of butter for the 30 days ending...
...arose that the market had been rigged. So it had. The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job. Reason: the league wanted to "protect" farmers from a drop in milk prices, which, under a Federal-State marketing formula, are largely determined by butter prices. (The combined average of butter and skim-milk prices for the 30 days ending December 24 had to be over $1 to keep prices...
...Wisconsin dairymen...
America's Town Meeting (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is Food Rationing Necessary to Prevent World Starvation?" Speakers: Senators George Aiken of Vermont and Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Fred H. Sexauer of the Dairymen's League Cooperative, and Harold Weston of Food for Freedom...