Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...last year. Winter wheat production for the country as a whole will be about 649,000,000 bu., nearly twice that of the drought year, 1933, and 130,000,000 bu. over 1936. Since this is roughly the amount of wheat that goes annually into the U. S. breadbasket, it leaves the equivalent of the entire spring wheat for export -according to the Board's best guess, between 175,000,000 and 200,000,000 bu. Because the critical month of May had been kind to winter wheat, brokers on the Chicago Board of Trade were pretty well prepared...
...processing tax on wheat, just effective, was passed on in toto to bread consumers. In Chicago and downstate Illinois, a 1-lb. loaf rose from 5? to 6?. The 24 oz. loaf, price 10?, was reduced to 20 oz. New York City was hit in the breadbasket when a 1? and 2? increase was indicated. North Dakota bakers set the minimum price for a "standard" loaf of bread at 12?, a 1? rise. In Rome and Syracuse, N. Y. a 1-lb. loaf of bread rose 1?. "You can't have your cake and eat it," observed President Henry...