Word: breadbaskets
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...Breadbasket. Despite such painstaking achievements-and ironically, partly because of them-Du Pont this year is suffering from what President Lammot du Pont Copeland (TIME cover, Nov. 27, 1964) delicately calls "a difficult adjustment period." After reaching a record $3.19 billion in 1966, the company's sales in the first quarter of this year fell to $755 million, 4% below their year-earlier level. Profits plunged 24% to $78 million, and the company expects no better results from the April-June quarter. "When autos, electrical appliances, steel and home furnishings are down, it hits us right in the breadbasket...
...shells and 2,200 air strikes into the fray, killing 992 Red infantrymen. South of Danang the Marines were searching out Viet Cong in Operation Macon, and in the rice-rich Delta, two search-and-destroy missions -Sioux City and Sunset Beach-were aimed at denying the enemy his breadbasket. South of Tuy Hoa on the coast, the 101st Airborne's Operation Seward has robbed enemy granaries of 2,500 tons of rice-enough to feed 32,500 men for a year-as well as accounting for nearly 200 enemy dead...
...escalated to raucous polemics, Rumania and the rest of Eastern Europe were ready to move. Rumania took the first step by stubbornly refusing to play the role assigned to it in COMECON-the Red Common Market. Moscow wanted Rumania to continue its traditional function of gas station and breadbasket to the Communist world. Rumania refused...
...victory is selfhelp. Aid must be accompanied by a major effort on the part of those who receive it. Unless it is, more harm than good can be the end result." So noting, Johnson unveiled his long-awaited pro posal to turn agricultural foreign aid into breadbasket diplomacy...
...Communist Party's Central Committee a few months ago to call on the miners to "exceed output goals and reduce production costs." The exhortation reflected the Soviet Union's growing recognition that so long as Russian agriculture remains disjointed and inefficient, the country's surest breadbasket is its rich gold mines...