Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
And out of that you pay me ten per cent., if I get it through for you. Take it or leave it." "My dear Sylvanus, that's almost-cynical." "Too good a price you'll never get it without me." "But a but a commission! You could never disclose it!" "Arrange that all right. Think it over. Freights'll go lower yet. Have some port." "No, no! Thank you. No! So you think freights will go lower?"
Its long route was traceable clear across the deserts of the Territory by the writhing serpent of dust it lifted up. One Virginia firm received one hundred tons of freight a month, and paid $10,000 a month freightage. In the winter the freights were much higher. So, the freight on these bars probably averaged something more than $25 each. Small shippers paid two per cent.
It wasn't my duty to pass it through till you shouted for signals. There ain't any schedule for bum freights. When they're late it's up to them." But for all Mr. Moss's contempt, and righteous indignation, the brakeman's charge had had its effect. Well enough he remembered the disjointed connecting rod, and he wondered how these "hold-ups" had contrived it under his very nose.
But presently I remembered with a lightening sense of relief that we had learned two or three trivial things there which we could be certain of; and so the two days were not wholly lost. For instance, we had learned that we were at last in a pioneer land, in absolute and tangible reality. The high prices charged for trifles were eloquent of high freights and bewildering distances of freightage.
A large fleet of steamers had been attracted by the high freights, inflated by the war fever that permeated Europe at that time, and also because the season was far advanced, and merchants were anxious to get their stuff shipped in case hostilities broke out.
Before the War the balance required to pay for the excess of imports over exports was apparently provided, first, by interest on investments in other countries Englishmen having provided capital all over the world and, second, by freights. A large amount of these foreign investments has been sold. How far shall we still be a creditor country after the War?
Reaching the tracks, Bart ran down a line of freights. The express shed was in view at last. It was lighted up as usual, the door stood open, and nothing suggested anything out of the ordinary. "The fellow's cracked," reflected Bart. "Everything looks straight here no, it doesn't!" He checked himself abruptly. "Here! what are you at?" Sharp and clear Bart sang out.
Lowndes then sounded the alarm that the New England states would monopolize the carrying-trade and charge ruinous freights, and he drew a harrowing picture of warehouses packed to bursting with rice and indigo spoiling because the owners could not afford to pay the Yankee skippers' prices for carrying their goods to market.
Freights have increased enormously, and they have not yet reached the highest point they are likely to attain. Imports have been restricted, prices have gone up and taxation has increased. Time may not be on the side of our enemies, but is it on ours? It is a fickle ally at best, and to rely on its support is to lean on a split reed.
Next train, the man says. They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights. A strangling gas tickled their throats and set them coughing. It was all dank and dark and gloomy. But little youth and love care for that! They were bubbling over with the happiness of this abnormal meeting.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking