war baby
n.β Β«As predicted, hemp proved little more than a βwar baby,β a term for an industry wholly dependent on the peculiar economics of wartime. The Lexington mill closed in 1945.Β» ββHemp once grown around Lexington to support war” by Bill Steinbacher-Kemp Pantagraph.com (Bloomington, Illinois) June 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)