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Floods Cost River Businesses Millions
(The New York Times)
April 29, 2001
By Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Businesses along the Mississippi River face millions of dollars in losses because flooding forced a halt to barge traffic along a 486-mile stretch of the huge water highway.
The Mississippi is a major transit route for shipment of grain and agricultural supplies between Midwest farmers and exporters at the Gulf of Mexico. But ...... Read more on The New York Times
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