Freight. Goods

Smith's Financial Dictionary · 1903 · p. 221
or materials transported by a carrying com- é pany. ‘The term is also sometimes applied to the charges ima posed for transporting the goods or materials. | Freight density. A term used in railroad accounting, mean- ‘ ing the result obtained when the number of tons carried one mile is divided by the number of miles of road operated. | Freight miles or freight mileage. A term used in railroad accounting, meaning the number of tons of freight carried one | mile. Freight traffic. Freight (merchandise, etc.) transported by a railroad or other carrying line. Frozen out. Excluded or shut out. For instance, if the majority interest in a corporation so adjusts matters as to control to the exclusion of the minority interest the minority interest is said to have been frozen out. | Likewise, if a member of a board of directors is objectionable to the other members and their combined opposition to. him in the affairs of the concern impels him to retire from the. board he is said to have been frozen out. Full-paid stock. That which subscribers (persons who subscribe for the stock) have paid for in full. full stock. Stock of the face value of $100; half-stock is.of the face value of $50 and quarter-stock is of the face value of $25.
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