Word: breadbasket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kazakhstan (pop. 9,300,000), almost as big as all of Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital...
...Agriculture Department had price news that tickled every American right in the breadbasket, just when a rise in the cost of living (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was hitting him in the pocket. Prices of beef will slip 5% to 10% in the next few months, and prices of fruits and vegetables will also drop, perhaps enough to pace a dip in the consumer price index...
...Russian master plan for satellites, East Germany was long ago selected to be the showpiece of industrialization. Undeterred by the fact that the area had traditionally been Germany's breadbasket, the Russians installed Walter Ulbricht to make their policy fact. Last week reports smuggled out of East Germany made clear that Ulbricht's ruthless drive to make over East Germany into an industrial complex had brought the country close to bankruptcy, was the basic cause of the recent split in Communist leadership...
...expansion plan. But the expected foreign capital was not available, and costs turned out to be grossly underestimated. With the government forced to cut imports to save foreign exchange, food prices have risen 16% in six months. India's neighbor. Pakistan, is not much better off. Once the breadbasket of undivided India, Pakistan had virtually no industry. In the struggle to industrialize, Pakistan raised industrial output 285% between 1950 and 1955. But so much land was shifted out of wheat into such crops as cotton and jute for export (to get the foreign currency needed to industrialize) that Pakistan...
Consumer Lag. Whatever the progress in the East, the consumer was slow to benefit. In Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded...