Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penalties of Failure. There was still a possibility that the negotiations could collapse and that De Gaulle would bring down the whole Common Market. But failure this time would mean that France would lose the chance to become the Market's breadbasket, that Germany would lose the opportunity to expand its industrial exports, and that the U.S.'s postwar policy goal of establishing a united, free-trading Europe would be crushed. The best grounds for optimism is that failure would cost everyone-including France-so dearly...
...broad prairie wheat fields of Canada are fast becoming a breadbasket for the Communist world. Last month, scooping into its gigantic surplus, Canada closed its second big grain sale to Red China-this time for more than $360 million. Last week the Russians came to call and quietly negotiated the biggest single one-year wheat export deal in Canadian history...
Measured on the Richter scale, which counts any jolt over 7 as "major,"* the five biggest of Chile's shudders ranged between 7.25 and 8.5, striking along a fault line (see chart) that cuts through Chile's southern wheat-growing breadbasket and close to coal-mining, fishing and light-industrial towns...