Sentence examples for export ice from inspiring English sources
"Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce," Henry David Thoreau griped in 1854, "and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour... but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain".
The ice trade began in 1806 as the result of the efforts of Frederic Tudor, a New England entrepreneur, to export ice on a commercial basis.
The first and most profitable of these new routes was to India: in 1833 Tudor combined with the businessmen Samuel Austin and William Rogers to attempt to export ice to Calcutta using the brigantine ship the Tuscany.
An abortive first attempt to export ice to England had occurred in 1822 under William Leftwich; he had imported ice from Norway, but his cargo had melted before reaching London.
There was a similar trend around the world – Britain had 103 ice plants by 1900, for example – and this made it increasingly unprofitable to export ice from the U.S.; annual exports of ice fell to less than 15,000 tons (13 million kg) by 1910.
Tudor's plan was to export ice as a luxury good to wealthy members of West Indies and the southern US states, where he hoped they would relish the product during their sweltering summers; conscious of the risk that others might follow suit, Tudor hoped to acquire local monopoly rights in his new markets in order to maintain high prices and profits.
A third company, Greenland Ice Cap Production, started exporting ice to Europe in 1997.
In 1991 the company toyed with exporting ice cream to Mexico.
Also, and perhaps more importantly, annual melting (68% reduction in 2011) [ 15], and export of ice (10 15% of the total ice-cover) [ 16] strongly diminish this habitat each year.
In 2007 we had a persistent high sitting over the Canadian Arctic, which contributed significantly to the export of sea ice out of the Arctic.
These ice export events occur at ∼12.9, ∼15.6, ∼22 and 29.8 ka (14C yr BP) and we argue that they record vigorous episodes of activity of the M'Clure Strait Ice Stream.
