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Freights are calculated to the last least fraction of per cent.
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010
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_Many Cargoes_ and _Light Freights_ are popular as well as excellent because they aim at nothing but the broad effect of laughter.
Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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Freights have also advanced in favor of steamship interests, which, with higher prices in England for coal, have also caused an advance in the price of coal at this port, to the benefit of the coal merchants and others interested in this important trade.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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Freights were about £8 per ton on the Cunard line before the establishment of the Collins; but they soon came down, and are not now £3, or $15, on an average.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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Freights that had been out all night were still out, tied up in all kinds of shapes.
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Freights have risen to the unprecedented rate of four or five dollars per ton between Philadelphia and Massachusetts and Maine; and if we wish for former freights of two dollars per ton and lower prices, we must build steam colliers like those which run between Newcastle and
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Freights from Savannah to Augusta were $4 a hundred.
Memoirs of a Southerner Thomas, Edward J 1923
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Freights are calculated to the last least fraction of per cent.
A Classic of the Sea 1917
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Freights were soaring by this time, due to the scarcity of the foreign bottoms which formerly had carried Uncle Sam's goods to market, and Cappy Ricks and
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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'First officers are often worse than skippers,' remarked the night watchman in Mr.W. W. Jacobs '_Light Freights_.
Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915
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