Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chance of the Arabs' wanting to put all their cash into one breadbasket seems remote, and the scare stories are based on phony evidence or plain prejudice. When asked to back up his claim that "thousands and thousands of acres are being bought up," California State Assemblyman John Thurman cited one "foreign" farm in California; in fact, it is owned by an American of Iranian descent. Under questioning, Tom Harkin admitted that foreign land buying "has not yet affected Iowa...
...model could be the Sudan, which has the rich soil and abundant water to become the breadbasket for all Africa. In partnership with Khartoum, American growers, packers and technicians could teach Sudanese farmers, set up irrigation and distribution networks, and build processing plants. After some initial U.S. and local government subsidies or guarantees the ventures would pay for themselves through exports. Says Wyman: "Neither the developing countries nor we want the U.S. to feed the world. The economics of that are not as interesting as having the world feed itself...
Ever since kids started throwing buckets of water onto their backyards and playing pick-up games, the Edmonton area has been the breadbasket for Candadian hockey...
Clutching suitcases and shopping bags full of cash, hundreds of Mexicans streamed across the Rio Grande last week. Their aim: to deposit in U.S. banks their threatened life savings. In Mexico City, foreign-currency trading halted as snaking lines of customers exhausted banks' supplies of dollars. Across the breadbasket of Sonora and Sinaloa states, armies of militant peasants poised to "invade" some of the country's richest farm lands. Near by, dispossessed landowners angrily draped their tractors in black crape. For a time, land war in the campo (countryside) seemed only a gunshot away...
...Sarkis' inauguration took place under the aegis of the Syrian army which is now trying to make peace in Lebanon, by battle if need be. The Syrian army in Lebanon, which now numbers 21,000 men with 90 tanks, holds the lush Bekaa Valley-Lebanon's breadbasket-across the mountains east of Beirut. Christian Lebanese meanwhile hold the Mediterranean coastal area north of the capital. Between those allies, until last week, was a Palestinian mountain salient centered on the crossroads town of Ain Toura. Assad and Sarkis demanded that the Palestinians evacuate their salient and return to their...