It is a world bread basket, number one in soybean, orange juice, coffee and sugar exports, number two in beef, and high in other agricultural products.
The funds within a particular basket could number anywhere between 10 and 35.
And while there was a dip in the number of products per basket sold, the number of baskets rose by more than enough to compensate.
But arguably it isn't the basket case some numbers suggest.
This was where, on Friday March 28 , 1941 on a cold spring morning, she wrote a farewell letter to Leonard before walking down to the River Ouse, leaving her papers in disarray, with several revisions of her last essay on Mrs Thrale in the waste-paper basket and immense numbers of typewritten sheets lying about the room.
Restoration Hardware in The Westchester features its Desoto laundry basket, a circular number on wheels with a chrome-plated frame and one large canvas bag ($55).
It was the draw for El Gordo, the huge Christmas lottery, and there they were retrieving their balls from huge rotating baskets and chanting numbers, over and over, for hours, like mini Gregorian monks.
Equipment required 1 pack of playing cards 1 bin (with its lid removed, if it has one) or similar receptacle: a washing basket, for example Number of players A minimum of two; a maximum of 13.
For, suppose we say that if there are exactly two apples in the basket, then the number of apples in the basket is Julius Caesar.
Those small pieces could be assembled into a chain, or a basket weave, or any number of other patterns.
