Like lead pencils that contain no lead, trade winds have little to do with commerce. They got their name from tho old English definition of the word meaning "straight path.” Being air currents directed toward the equator by the rotation of the earth, they often follow the same course for long periods without changing.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 2
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