Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week gave a progress report on his program to shrink the mountain of surplus U.S. dairy products by lower price supports and a huge giveaway program. Lower price supports so spurred consumption that Benson was able to cut new purchases of butter by 45%, of cheese by 66%, of dried milk by 21%. Under the giveaway program, the U.S. in 1954 distributed a total 1.7 billion Ibs. of excess butter, cheese and dried milk, much of it free to welfare agencies at home and abroad, treble the amount disposed of in 1953. Together...
During this 17-year era, when union men have collected their share of the economy's expanding production, the 1.3 million minimum-wage workers have gained nothing from industrial progress. Only wage hikes that would carry the wage floor above $.90 an hour, such as Senator Lehman's proposal of $1.25, would give these workers a share in the new wealth their labor has helped produce...
...Central Valley of California into the Deep South. While prosperous cotton farmers collect subsidies on their surplus fibre, they pay a wages must include these exempted workers, if their lofty statements have any foundation in principle. And with exemptions erased, Congress should vote wage floors that reflect the progress, rather than the inflation, of the national economy...
...They've made remarkable progress, but with freshmen you can never tell how they'll do in competition," said Coach Derrick Wilde as he watched his Yardling crew take a practice run for this afternoon's race against M.I.T...
Unlimited progress now seemed a hopeless dream. In his 25th reunion biography, Hicks writes, "For a long time I had been dubious about the values of an acquisitive society, but it was hard to quarrel with a system that was delivering the goods. When, however, the system broke down, I quickly became convinced that something had to be done about it. As Lincoln Steffens said, the Communists seemed to be the only people who were seriously trying to change the system, and I began to travel with the Communists...