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FARM SURPLUS has been whittled in a $5,800,000 deal with Argentina. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has sold off about 44 million Ibs. of surplus cottonseed oil, nearly 15% of the total 260 million Ibs. the Government bought under price props...
Dressed in a dignified gray suit, the white-haired Knowland spoke without notes, but reiterated points made earlier in the day at a luncheon with Mayor John B. Hynes of Boston and later at night before a Robert A. Taft Memorial Dinner. His afternoon talk was sponsored by the Young Republican Club...
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...
...Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's endorsement. Furthermore, it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, other Senator Taft...
...Accepted gold season passes for himself and Mamie from Clark Griffith, president of the Washington Senators, who has presented passes to every President from William Howard Taft...