Word: grainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry their clear water has been for years the cheapest medium in the world for moving freight. The Great Lakes waterway curves southeast 1,000 miles from the greatest sources of iron ore on the continent to the greatest U. S. steelmaking centres. It lies between the richest grainland of North America and the richest consumer population on any seaboard in the world. The tonnage of freight shipped and received at lake ports in 1929 surpassed that of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports of the U. S. combined. The gross tonnage of ships employed on the Great Lakes...
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