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• s  having relatively long fibers
  long-staple cotton

• Moreover, long-staple imports, chiefly from Egypt, are not to be depended on.
• Dammed and channeled, this water turns the valleys green with sugar cane, ripens grapes for Peru's famed pisco brandy, grows the fine, long-staple cotton that is king of the .
• Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and .