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To a single line of steamers running alternate weeks from Liverpool to Boston and New York, she paid nine hundred thousand dollars annually, and continued to pay at this extravagant rate for at least twenty years.
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Blaine details the substantial subsidies England paid to maintain its steamship services between major cities.
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