Exports feature shipments of high-grade wool to the UK and the sale of postage stamps and coins.
These various packages are usually sold in the flat and the grower puts them together as is convenient before the crop comes on; but in many sections where there are large shipments they are often put together by the package dealers.
The American middle West linked up with new railroads, grain pouring out to New York and Baltimore; Californian wheat shipments doubling, and the Walla country in Oregon all one grain belt.
American shipments will fall off; the demands of the world's growing population will overtake the supply.
Upon due protest by the American minister, and it appearing that the act was a virtual discrimination against our product, the shipments in question were admitted.
Shipments of wheat were made to California, but the markets beyond had tempted only the most daring.
Interchange of checks, the conduct of checking accounts, shipments of cash, and borrowing and lending proceed in the same manner as between domestic institutions.
Should the balances of all the banks of a town with their out-of-town correspondents be nearly or quite exhausted, shipments of cash to correspondents could not be avoided.
Hoarding, unusually large shipments of money to foreign countries and between different sections of the same country, and payments of unusual magnitude, increase the demands for cash made upon banks at such times.
The expenses involved in shipments of cash, loans, or purchases or sales of drafts for the purpose of replenishing balances with or withdrawing them from out-of-town correspondents, give rise to what is called the rate of exchange.
Moreover, at a slightly later date the special contract system played its part in limiting shipments by sea.
Shipments moving via Ogden he regarded as lost and reported them accordingly.
On all-rail shipmentsdown the valley, as well as on shipments over the coast rail route, however, water competition was not effective.
When the ton-miles (or ton-mileage) of all shipments are aggregated the total represents the sum of all services.
Some six or seven years ago the Burlington officers gave careful consideration to the problem of increasing the Company's business, and you must bear in mind that freight shipments do not just happen to go this way or that.
Concerning the periodicals issued during the past year Mr. William Stetson Merrill has submitted the following report as editor: The sixteen shipments of A.
Those flowers are the discarded stock or delayed shipments of the swell florists.
The greater freedom from detention and seizure which was confidently expected to result from consigning shipments to definite consignees rather than "to order" is still awaited.
In spite of these decrees, however, the British Foreign Office has thus far declined to affirm that copper shipments consigned to Italy will not be molested on the high seas.
The myriads of small shipments to as many consignees that consume a mass of powers and of time, now grow into large shipments to the municipal depots and the central places of production.
Even after the declaration of war became known, these shipments continued, protected by British licenses from British cruisers.
The five millions which had luckily fallen in, owing to the enormous British shipments after war was declared, helped to tide the Treasury over its immediate difficulties, but it helped also to encourage the inaction of Congress.
The increased demand for "harvest to harbor" service has also placed an increased burden on rural transportation systems, while bottlenecks along the Mississippi River delay grain shipments to the Gulf of Mexico.
At present it occurs that large shipments of interstate traffic are controlled by concessions on purely State business, which of course amounts to an evasion of the law.
There would be no export duties on her shipments nor import duties on those coming here.
And, despite the large shipments we have already made, and despite what we shall send, there remain great needs abroad.
In the early years of the present century, for which the record has been found, from July until the following April shipments of almanacs usually ran well in excess of one million per month.
The coming of the railroad also put a station almost at the doorstep of the factory, and thereafter many shipments came and went by rail.
Only physical shipments were shown in the records recovered, and the dollar volume is the author's computation at $16 per gross, the price which prevailed for many years.
A register of incoming shipments for the year 1905 shows that the factory was still receiving large quantities of aloes, gamboge, mandrake, jalap, and pepper.
These small shipments were usually mailed, rather than going by express or freight, as formerly.
We have examined them as well as his diaries recording his daily occupations, and his letter-books, containing entries of shipments of tobacco, and correspondence with his London agents.
Of this opening he has already taken advantage, by sending trial shipments of salt beef to England.
Whether the supply sent out this season, has exceeded the demand, or not, I have no means of ascertaining, while writing in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean; but I have no fear as to the result of any shipments that may have been made.
Substantial grain shipments from Japan and South Korea are offsetting a portion of the losses.
The expense of transporting flour and other heavy articles by land, caused speculators and traders to seek shipments by water to Eastern ports.
They plied between San Francisco and San Pedro, and by agreement put in at Santa Barbara and other Coast places such as Port San Luis, when the shipments warranted such stops.
This train full of necessaries was the first relief of its kind that reached San Francisco; other shipments of supplies followed daily; and with the first relief train went a corps of surgeons, under the chairmanship of Dr.
The trading account is charged with all purchases and inventory, if any, at beginning of the period, and credited with all shipments and inventory at end of period.
If at the time of closing the books there are any outstanding shipmentson which Account Sales have not been received, the debit balances represent assets the same as inventory of merchandise on hand.
It is charged with totalshipments through the shipment book; with advance expenses through cash book or journal; credited with net proceeds through cash book or journal.
At the end of the month the total of all shipments is posted to the debit of a controlling account in the general ledger known as shipment ledger account.
This is the book of original entry forshipments in which each shipment is recorded in detail, showing each item, with prices (usually at cost) extended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
