Word: pail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlawful for an Indian to carry a pail of sea water to his home. Although India has four of the world's best rock salt areas in the world, could locally manufacture all the salt necessary, the British government dumps some 600,000 tons in the Indian market annually, thus provides ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby...