Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Start now to free the farmer of Government controls on acreage by letting the Secretary of Agriculture gradually increase acreage allotments up to 50% above present levels if-as Benson hopes-lower farm prices stimulate consumption at home and abroad in areas where U.S. products have been priced out of the market...
...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
...post-Sputnik era many a Congressman had raised his voice asking for the Administration to show "leadership." The Administration showed it by attacking the nation's $5 billion-a-year farm giveaway in an election year-when the money is sorely needed for defense. Judging by its first spokesmen, Congress was in no mood to deal with the issue...
...press relations were atrocious at the time, and Jim Hagerty shared with most of the Albany press a marked coolness toward his new boss. He gradually came to like and respect Dewey, although he never overcame his extreme distaste for wading through manure on the governor's Pawling farm (it is City Boy Hagerty's misfortune to have worked 15 years for cattle raisers...
...feed talent into his championship club, Kutis has a farm system of three teams (one for adults, one for teenagers, one for youngsters from seven to ten). Branching out, ex-Amateur Infielder Kutis also sponsors 41 bowling teams, six baseball teams, two girls' softball teams, and one girls' basketball team. In all it costs him $15,000 a year...