Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present enjoying a boom in Mincing Lane. Russia is beginning to buy once more. British per capita consumption has increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds...
...trade is beginning to talk of a 13,000,000-bale crop. The boll weevil, while by no means eradicated, is not expected to be so severe a scourge to cotton this year as last. On the other hand, tropical storms sweeping up over the Cotton Belt from the Gulf over the Southern Atlantic section, accompanied by heavy rainfall, are worrying the cotton traders. Other troubles have appeared. "Army worms" are reported in Texas, and a hot drought in the western part of the belt...
Waters. Deep waterways to Gulf and Atlantic Ocean from the Great Lakes; Inland waterways, flood control, especially on Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; survey for these purposes; examination of licenses to be granted by the Federal Water Power Commission by Congress...
...Great Lakes-Atlantic and Great Lakes-Gulf waterways; surveys for flood control on the Colorado; continuation of Federal Water Power...
Waters. Great Lakes-Atlantic and Great Lakes-Gulf waterways. Surveys for flood control and irrigation on the Colorado River. Continuation of the Federal Water Power...