Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ITHACA, N.Y., Feb. 13--Harvard's slumping basketball team took another belt in the breadbasket tonight, as front-running Cornell handed the Crimson its sixth straight Eastern Intercollegiate League defeat...
...learning Stalin's old lesson, the hard way. All over Yugoslavia, peasants were on a slowdown strike against Tito's collective farms and Tito's forced deliveries of grains to the state. The peasants had harvested the grain last month on schedule. Yugoslavia's breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm land-the richest 25%), the peasants alibied...
Horrible Example. The man who so unerringly kicked his fellow males in the breadbasket is Elmer Wheeler, 47-year-old professional phrasemaker and hustler of slick selling techniques. Salesman Elmer who weighed 234 pounds (see cut), was shocked into dieting last year after a Dallas department-store salesman waved him into the "fat men's section" for a new shirt: He took off 40 pounds in 80 days and wrote a book, The Fat Boy's Book (Prentice-Hall; $2), which sold lethargically until General Features, a lusty young feature service, chopped it into 19 pieces lor newspaper...
...weak ness and shake their heads. That is not the only way for an American to look at Iran. Last month a TIME correspondent talked to U.S. engineers in Iran. Some spoke in glowing terms of a future in which Iran could support 50 million people and be a breadbasket for the whole Middle East. One said, "Damn, I wish I were 35 instead of 55. Then I'd have 20 good years left in me to see this country bloom the way our own West has done." A man who can look at poverty-stricken Iran...