The managing owner of the Independent Freighters needed cleverness, since the company was small and often embarrassed for money.
His father had waited long before he resigned himself to the change, but was not altogether too late, and Cartwright was now managing owner of the Independent Freighters Line.
The freighters are small boats, but Cartwright's worth knowing; in fact, to know him is something of an education.
All the same, running the Independent Freighters is quite a sporting proposition, and I imagine Mr. Cartwright generally makes good.
Accordingly he urged the letting of contracts for two seven-thousand-five-hundred-ton steel freighters immediately.
Our business was finished and I was anxious to get back on the job; so we engaged skippers and crews to bring our four freighters to New York, and came home.
That settled it to my mind; we could not expect the freighters and others to come our way when, at any time, they might find the road under water.
The freighters made a mistake and delivered it at Yetmore's, and now he won't give it up.
They were the great freighters of the larger rivers, descending with the current and ascending by means of oars, poles, sails and cordelles--ropes by which the craft was often towed from the shore.
But everybody we have met coming in says that there are no freighters going west now.
Miles away to the southwest the Santa Fé Trail wound among the Arkansas sand-hills, never, in all its history, less safe for freighters than in that summer of 1867.
One other characteristic made Macmillan one of the most trusted of the freighters upon the trail.
The building of railroads cut largely into their work, and gradually the freighters faded from the trails.
Revenge, swift and terrible, was meted out to the innocent pilgrims and freighters who had left home, comforts and friends.
We were not long in finding a suitable camping spot a mile from the town and the same distance from the many corrals of the great Western freighters and pilgrims, as the immigrants were called.
The following morning we proceeded to the large warehouses on the river front, where all Western freighters were to be found.
We did so and to our surprise and joy were right in the city of Denver, the "Mecca" of nearly all Western freighters and distributing point for the far Western territories.
Closer they came, bedecked in war-paint and feathers, their chief in the lead resembling the devil incarnate with all his aids bent on exterminating as brave a band of freighters as ever crossed the plains.
All of the freighters had their oxen branded for identification, using the first letter of his last name for the purpose.
O'Fallow's Bluffs was a point feared by freightersand emigrants alike.
All freighters had a wagon boss and an assistant who rightfully had the reputation of being tyrants when on the trail, using tact and discretion when in camp.
He saw the silent crumbling of great buildings; he glimpsed in one wild second the whirling helicopters on giant freighters that took the air too late; he saw them vanish as the sea swept in and engulfed them.
The freighters consigned or received the goods, and paid the expenses of their shipment.
The goods were run ashore in complete safety, and each of the three freighters pocketed a considerable profit.
The same distance covered slowly by freighters in pursuance of their task of earning their daily living would seem to him far more worthy of respect and emulation.
And there's really a vast improvement in the freighting teams as well; for so many dogs that do not quite make the racing teams become freighters and show the results of their breeding and training there.
Really," with honest conviction, "they will be far better off than if you sold them to freighters or prospectors for a life of toil, possibly of neglect even.
Anyhow, the trappers and traders and freighters in the country, and there were quite a number of them, got to thinking that the Piegans made all the trouble.
The horses were on short commons; there was mighty little hay in town and the only place folks dared to pasture them was down on the flat where the feed was mighty poor, because that was where the freighters camped and fed their stock.
The anticipated fleet of cotton-freighters had not arrived from Europe, and the expected twelve millions of foreign gold had not refilled the collapsed banks.
Russell, Majors & Waddell were overland freighters and contractors, with headquarters at Leavenworth.
But Will was speedily concerned with other than his own affairs, for as soon as his position with the freighters was assured, mother engaged a lawyer to fight the claim against our estate.
Happily the freighters got word of the situation, and a relief team reached the fort before the spring was fairly opened.
It is but a few weeks since I met one of our most noted pioneer plainsmen andfreighters across the prairies of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the earliest of the days I have been speaking of.
This fact gave me quite a reputation among the freighters and merchants who were engaged in business between the two points above mentioned.
Large Conestoga freighters made regular trips from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh bringing loads of hats, boots, powder, lead and clothing which were distributed from the "Gateway of the West" among the towns and villages down the river.
Transportation was supplied by regular freighters who employed a large number of men to conduct the white-topped prairie schooners across the unsettled plains between the Missouri River and the mountains.
The news of the Gram base on Tanith spread slowly, first by the scheduled liners and tramp freighters that linked the Sword-Worlds, and then by trading ships and outbound Space Vikings to the Old Federation.
Count Lionel of Newhaven was building one of his own, and three big freightersshuttled across the three thousand light-years between Tanith and Gram.
A couple of freighters who were with the wagon you ran into.
The freighters were on the ground, hanging to the bits of the horses.
Yet these rough freighters looked upon the "situation" very philosophically, and appeared quite indifferent whether they got on or stayed.
John knew that these freighters did not look with favor on the railroads or with any one or thing connected with them, for they declared bitterly that the railroads robbed them of their business.
Freighters came in from points on the distant railroad with provisions for the cattlemen, trappers, and miners, and the constantly changing population of the town.
It can be seen from a long distance, and is one of the features of the landscape from which, in the winter, the freighters measure distances--a kind of millarium or central milestone.
About every twelve miles we pass a stopping place where the winter freighters and their teams are fed.
I tell you, these railways are creating a new heavens and a new earth however much the freighters may object.
I really do not know whom to write to, and the pack-horse freighters often wet or spoil them.
Night and day the freighters met him riding along the heavy trails, hurrying in tools and supplies, and the shaft-sinkers said that he was always foremost when there was risky work to be done.
The trails are hardly safe just now, and the regular freighters hadn't a beast to spare.
I met two freighters just after I left, who gave me the unwelcome news that there were thirty-miles of ice between that and Denver.
The freighters come in to supper quite well washed, and though twelve of them slept in the kitchen, by nine o'clock there was not a sound.
Here, skippers of rocket ships, bound for destinations in deep space, could find hands willing to sign on their dirty freighters despite low pay and poor working conditions.
It was a refueling stop for the jet liners and space freighters bound for the outer planets, and for those returning to Earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freighters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
