Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escalated to raucous polemics, Rumania and the rest of Eastern Europe were ready to move. Rumania took the first step by stubbornly refusing to play the role assigned to it in COMECON-the Red Common Market. Moscow wanted Rumania to continue its traditional function of gas station and breadbasket to the Communist world. Rumania refused...
...victory is selfhelp. Aid must be accompanied by a major effort on the part of those who receive it. Unless it is, more harm than good can be the end result." So noting, Johnson unveiled his long-awaited pro posal to turn agricultural foreign aid into breadbasket diplomacy...
...Communist Party's Central Committee a few months ago to call on the miners to "exceed output goals and reduce production costs." The exhortation reflected the Soviet Union's growing recognition that so long as Russian agriculture remains disjointed and inefficient, the country's surest breadbasket is its rich gold mines...
...Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. So far, however, U.S. wheat dealers have managed to sell only half that amount-1,700,000 tons to Russia for some $135 million, and 300,000 tons to the satellites. Eventually, the satellites may buy more wheat, but the Russians claim that their own breadbasket, stocked with some 12 million tons of Western wheat, is full...
...Nation. German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, who counts on the farm vote to help him in the next elections, probably was happy to put on a show of resistance before agreeing to lower farm prices. France, whose aim is to become Europe's breadbasket, feels that it has made only short-term concessions to its partners and no commitments at all to allow such outsiders as the U.S. to be big suppliers of food to the Market. The U.S. may not like the terms that the Market will present in the forthcoming general negotiations, where the President...