Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency had been adjusted elsewhere. As farmers out in the wheat belt already knew, the long-heralded "glut" of wheat simply had not materialized. The harvest was all but over in Texas, Oklahoma and the big Kansas "breadbasket," and it had turned out from 20% to 40% smaller than the Government's June estimates. Said one surprised Kansas farmer: "I've got the finest 40-bushel straw and the poorest 10-bushel wheat you ever saw." Reasons for the dwindling crop: long, unseasonal rains, in some cases hail, and plant diseases like stem rust and glume blotch...
There is an important reason why Bavaria can afford such lunatic luxury. Its economy can take it. Bavaria is Western Germany's fat breadbasket, and its agrarian economy has always been nicely sprinkled with small industry. Extremes of rich & poor have been less severe here than in Germany's industrial heart. War damage has been less grievous-bombs could not do to Bavarian farms what they did to Ruhr factories...
There was nothing lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a seven-foot dike and to plug a break in the Ouse River's banks...
...inhabitants of its zone. This meant that Americans, British and French must haul most of their supplies from west of the Elbe, a comedown from the original Anglo-U.S. contention that Berlin's outlying regions, which are under Russian control, should be Berlin's breadbasket. The Russian part of Germany was seriously short of supplies and could not support all Berlin...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...