Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved toward a decision on Capitol Hill last week, ancient Egypt's farm plan was drawn into the argument by the Joseph of 1956. On the griddle before the House Committee on Agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson stood stubbornly by his flexible price supports and his soil bank. Chiding Benson, North Carolina Democrat Harold Cooley said that the soil bank was, in fact, a Democratic idea used in the 1930s. Replied Mormon Apostle Benson: "Its sources probably go back to Joseph in Egypt...
Jewish scholars and writers are showing an increasing interest in Christ as a teacher. Christians in their turn are more conscious of Judaism because of Jewish philosophers like Martin Buber (TIME. Jan. 23). In such fertile soil the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies at New Jersey's Seton Hall University plants a seed of fact: Christ is the link as well as the difference between Christian...
...days earlier, in a preliminary Agriculture Committee vote, all three had sided with an eight-to-seven majority for restoring farm supports pegged rigidly at 90% of parity. This invitation to new surpluses was patently ridiculous, because the committee had also voted for the Administration's soil-bank program, designed to cut surpluses (and later upped the Administration's soil-bank request for $1.17 billion by $175 million). If Benson could persuade one of the G.O.P. three to switch, this year's farm bill could be sent to the Senate floor without the contradiction be tween high...
That same day President Eisenhower wrote Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken, strongly urging the committee to turn down rigid supports. "I should be gravely concerned." said the President, "if the soil bank should be coupled with the restitution of production incentives." Later, White House Press Secretary James Hagerty threw out pointed hints of a presidential veto of a farm bill containing a 90%-parity clause. These moves failed too. After a 14-hour, table-thumping session, the Agriculture Committee backed rigid supports, contradiction and all. The vote was still eight to seven; not a mind had been changed...
Many Komsomols bucked the bleak frontier job. Their complaints, leaking back to Moscow, deterred later volunteers. Last month Khrushchev conceded that "some husbandries were set up in a hurry and were not quite successful," admitted that the area lacked rainfall, was scourged by early frosts, the soil was saline, and that on some farms one out of every three workers was a bureaucrat. But Khrushchev stuck doggedly to his old line that the state farm was the solution to Russia's agricultural problem...