Word: farming
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Benson succeeded in winning approval of his basic idea in the 1958 farm bill, which set subsidy rules for the 1959 corn crop. It abolished acreage controls, lowered price props toward the level set by the market (support price: $1.12 per bu.). But instead of cutting surplus production, as Benson unswervingly predicted, the no-control formula encouraged farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more...
...party stalwarts as Ben Franklin Jensen, eleven-term G.O.P. Congressman from southwestern Iowa's Seventh District. By last week Ben Jensen, already fighting desperately to hold the seat that was once rock-ribbed Republican, was running mainly on an anti-Benson platform, called his own Administration's farm plan "almost a complete failure ... I just don't agree with Benson. I've urged him to change his course. But it's been in vain...
Democrats were delighted at the prospect of beefing up their new political strength in Republican farm strongholds. Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington proclaimed a program to aid the small farmer, Jack Kennedy called for some original Democratic thinking, and Hubert Humphrey (who has never delivered on the new farm program he promised at the last session of Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away...
...sobering fact is that the $6.6 billion farm program has become a disaster of such magnitude that it deserves far better than partisan exploitation. So twisted and distorted is the normal farm economy because of subsidies that no honest candidate can propose an overnight solution. But by the same token, no honest candidate can pretend to be serving the national interest unless he makes solution of the farm scandal his urgent business. It is no answer to stand on the here-and-now, and it is no answer to go back to older remedies that also failed. The farmer, along...
Bookish Football. Robert Anderson had an old-fashioned upbringing in a close-knit, pious, hard-working family in Johnson County. Texas, just south of Fort Worth. His father (who died fortnight ago at 81) was a storekeeper in the little town of Burleson, later took up farming on a 120-acre tract in Godley. Stricken at three with an attack of polio that left him with a limp, Bob grew up a bookish, unathletic lad, but he did his farm chores right along with the four other Anderson children. "He was serious-minded," his mother recalls. "From the time...