Word: breadbasket
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...week that hope grew dimmer. No longer did the Government send leaflets to the troops reading: "Hold on, help will come soon." Having lost, by unofficial estimate, about 5,000,000 dead or wounded, the Russians were in no mood to sympathize with Dieppe Commando raid losses. Their Ukraine breadbasket was being trampled by hordes of Germans. Germans stood deep in the Caucasus. They spread over the entire, scorched valley of the Don. Bitterness grew at the lack of a second front...
...schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...
...Breadbasket. After the German Panzer divisions romped across the Ukraine, millions of Russians would have starved had not the Soviet Union previously converted Siberia into a second breadbasket. Through scientific farming, peasants are now growing wheat as far north as the 67th degree. In the Novosibirsk area, one of the richest in Siberia, cultivated acreage jumped from 3,500,000 in 1913 to over 10,000,000 in 1933. On each of the 6,000 collective farms in this region there is an average of three dairies, with 8.5 head of livestock per family...
...tally sheets his statistical election picture quickly took shape. Willkie's strength was inland, in the breadbasket States. Wherever land touched sea, Roosevelt was strong. The New England vote was a triumph for him: Maine went Republican only narrowly, and the President's vote in New England was even larger than...
...carry only 440-lb. bombs; the Ju-88 top load was 3,960 lb. (against 10,000 Ib. for a Flying Fortress). But these types could come & go in such numbers that the psychological effect of heavy mass raiding was achieved. Also, they introduced the Göring "breadbasket"-a big bundle of mixed incendiaries and explosives. For bass notes a few larger Nazi planes unloaded devastating 4,000-lb land mines, lowered by parachute to make their descent slow and silent, give no warning. One of their delayed-action bombs damaged the U. S. Embassy...