These are commodities where economy of transportation is a prime essential to production.
Some 75 percent of the total freight commodities originating on the traffic lines in the United States consist of heavy raw materials, the staple productions of the farms, the forests, the mines, and the live stock ranges of the interior.
Applause) From the earth come all the materials for manufactures, the commoditiesof commerce, and ultimately the support of all human institutions.
This increase is in part due to the reduction of supplies, but it is due also to the same causes of increased cost of production as have raised the price of other manufactured commodities (applause).
When a great Man marrys he makes presents to all his Wife's relations of European and other Foreign commodities to the value of 100 Rix Dollars.
It was the mart, where the neighbouring colonies bartered their respectivecommodities which they could not do elsewhere with so much ease and safety.
It is just as important to him to know the prices of commodities in 1800 as to know the terms of Jay's treaty.
Part of these commodities are delivered to the English, who are proprietors of the best plantations, and in possession of the slave trade.
They would then in the same season proceed north to the cultivated regions of the Atlas mountains and arrive there in the midst of the harvest, exchanging their southern commodities for grain, raw-wool, and a variety of European goods.
In evidence of this, the fiscal cites the great increase in prices of both commodities and labor, due to this new tax on the Chinese.
And he will pay indirectly for the advertisements of other people, because that payment, being concealed in the price of commodities is part of an invisible environment that he does not effectively comprehend.
On the whole there is no sharp dividing line, for in respect to most commodities sold by advertising, the customers are neither the small class of the very rich nor the very poor.
He wished to establish factories at places upon the Tibetan border, where the merchants of Tibet might purchase the commodities of his country and of Bengal, and he desired the concurrence of the Tibetans.
And yet in that age you profited slowly by the commodities which the eastern and western parts of the world afforded.
Pigs, Spanish dollars, and Norway rats, are not the onlycommodities and incommodities which have performed the circumnavigation, and are to be found wherever European ships have touched.
The commodities of both parties, are openly offered for sale, and every one knows how the property of each was obtained.
King Hay," so much lauded for his magnitude and money value, never once ventured on board a merchant vessel, to seek a foreign land, so as to aid in paying for the commodities which we imported.
The commodities are exchanged, each helping himself to a cartridge and a cigarrito.
How rapidly after the establishment of individual exchange and after the transformation of products into commodities the product manifests its rule over the producer, the Athenians were soon to learn.
Cattle became the favorite commodity by which all other commodities were measured in exchange.
The commodity of commodities that was hiding all other commodities in its mysterious bosom had been discovered, a charm that could be transformed at will into any desirable or coveted thing.
Hence he owned the cattle and the commodities and slaves obtained in exchange for them.
After the sale of commodities for money came the borrowing of money, resulting in interest and usury.
For during the last period of the higher stage of barbarism the production of commodities and the resulting trade had well advanced.
Along with the production of marketable commoditiescame the tilling of the soil by individual cultivators for their own account, soon followed by individual ownership of the land.
The wealth in commodities and slaves was now further increased by large holdings in land.
Gradually, the production of commodities became the rule.
The old communications between Europe and Asia were thus severed, and for many years the precious commodities of the East ceased to find their way towards Europe.
Moreover, in addition to their Astrakhan freights, they keep up an exchange trade in eatable commodities with the nomades of the Caspian shores.
The value of some of these commodities was evidently mainly speculative.
Thus, excise is a charge on commodities of domestic production; customs is a charge or duty assessed by law levied on goods imported or exported; tolls are charges for special privileges as, passing over a bridge or a turnpike.
Such commodities may continue for whole centuries together to be sold at this high price; and that part of it which resolves itself into the rent of land is, in this case, the part which is generally paid above its natural rate.
The "real" price ofcommodities is their value in terms of human life.
This "real" value of commodities is the value imputed to them by the economist under the stress of his teleological preconception.
The town is not over large, and commodities are very scarce, the only thing obtainable being dried salmon.
In a town such as this one would expect to find commodities both reasonable in price and plenty in variety.
The colonists carry on a considerable commerce with this country, the East Indies, and China; but they have scarcely any article of export to offer in return for the various commodities supplied by those countries.
Like these, they have no staple export to offer in exchange for the various commodities which they import from foreign countries, and are obliged principally to rely on the expenditure of the government for the means of procuring them.
The value of the coffee and bananas annually exported from the republic is much greater than that of all the other commodities combined.
It is the only way in which two commodities of unequal value can be maintained at parity with each other.
Great Britain may admit nearly all commodities free of duty, but even that country is guided by her interests in all her commercial regulations.
He insisted that the tendency toward a decline in prices of commodities and an increase in the rates of wages is the necessary result of our improved methods of production, transportation and exchange.
Gillam, one of these bold captains, arrived with his vessel laden with the commodities the people needed, and armed, this time, with cannon.
As for linnen, cloath and othercommodities the kingdome affords, we have litle more of them then serves our oune necessity.
So few artificers remain in its towns, that native commodities are carried abroad to be wrought in forrain countries.
What new commoditieshave you brought to gull us with?
He will meet with black-eyed French women and ruby-coloured French wine, and brother Blackburn is no man to leave such commodities in a hurry.
These shall be called General Storehouses, whence every particular Family may fetch such commodities as they want, either for their own use in their house, or for to work in their trades, or to carry into the Country Storehouses.
Secondly, Hereby England would be enriched with all commodities within itself which they each would afford.
The general Storehouses are such houses as receive in all commodities in the gross.
But in case other Nations whose commodities we want, will not exchange with us unless we give them money, then pieces of silver and gold may be stamped with the Commonwealth's Arms upon them, for the same use and no otherwise.
In every Town and City shall be appointed Storehouses for flax, wood, leather, cloth, and for all such commodities as come from beyond seas.
Commodities of every description are continuously being produced, and being brought to the Storehouses, wholesale and retail, thence to be redistributed to those who require them.
A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commodities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: effects; good; goods; inventory; line; merchandise; staple; stock; truck; ware
