Saudi Wheat

Submitted by mike palmer (United States), Mar 4, 2008 at 10:20

Back in the late '80s-early '90s when I was writing Guardians of the Gulf, I ran across a US Govt. estimate that the actual cost of a Saudi loaf of bread (baked in the Kingdom using Saudi-grown wheat) was $67.00!

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