Word: earls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drought hurt production of feed grains so badly that the Agriculture Department now estimates that retail food prices, far from going down, will rise another 4% to 5% in this year's second half, then go up some more in 1975. The best hope that Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz can offer is that next year's rise will be less than 10%, v. 15% this year...
...that could ease the price crunch in the U.S: export controls that would in effect ration the amount of U.S. food made available to an increasingly hungry world. No proposal for such controls has yet been made to the President, but some Administration officials favor them. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz is opposed; he argues persuasively that controls would sabotage world trade by undermining confidence in the willingness of the U.S. to fulfill its agreements, and that the nation sorely needs large export earnings from farm goods to pay for imports of high-priced oil. His arguments were underscored last...
Died. Karl Earl Mundt, 74, former Republican Senator from South Dakota; in Washington, D.C. A college speech teacher before his election to Congress in 1938, the stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired...
...Washington the betting is that at least one major job will be offered to a Democrat. Almost certainly Henry Kissinger will stay on as of Secretary of State until January 1977. Other Cabinet members who will probably be asked to carry on until the end of the term are Earl Butz of Agriculture and James Schlesinger of Defense. Last spring Ford considered, if he became President, firing Schlesinger because he seemed ineffective in dealing with Congress. That proved not to be the case, and the two men have long since patched up their differences...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested facetiously that the U.S. might save food by killing half of its dogs and cats. Said Butz in a speech to the American Society of Animal Science: "If some of those ill-informed, fuzzy-thinking do-gooders who suggest that we eat one less hamburger per week to release more foodstuffs to the world are really serious ... they could make the first onslaught on this noble goal by reducing our dog and cat population by 50%." Of course, Butz added, "I do not advocate such a thing...