He had been a town justice of the peace for thirty years, and from his dairy farm of 150 acres was one of the first shippers of milk to the New York market over the Erie Railroad.
While these conditions prevailed the milk manifest at any station where a large amount of milk was loaded contained so many names of shippers and consignees that it resembled the poll list of an election district.
The one time shippers are now patrons of the local creamery, from one to three of which may be found at every station.
Pursuant to these instructions, would-be shippers were halted on the highway and ordered to take their milk back home.
And I see that the Interstate Commerce Commission is looking into the charge that certain railroads are practicing by a system of rebates discrimination against shippers of live stock, and in favor of packing house products and dressed meats.
Mr. Mann spoke for the shippers precisely as Mr. Dunne spoke for the railroads.
In the same way, Mr. Seth Mann, representing the shippers of California, appeared before the Committee and presented the side of the shippers.
General Webb, after reviewing railroad conditions in California, on page 13 of his report says: "It is thus apparent that the shippers of the State are practically helpless.
On the other hand, shippers who fail to load or unload cars after a stated time, are required to pay the railroad $6 daily as demurrage.
As finally passed the bill provides that railroad companies which fail to supply shippers with cars when proper requisition has been made for them, shall pay the injured shipper demurrage at the rate of $5 per car per day.
Witness after witness representing the largeshippers and importers of the State urged that the investigation be carried on even after the Legislature had adjourned.
Bristow replied that he would do what he could, that he was receiving many letters from Western shippers who favored the plan, but that the chief difficulty in the way was the opposition of the California delegation in the Senate.
The extra dollar which the shippers are required to pay the railroads is exacted to compensate the railroads for rental of the car.
But it had the backing of the shippers of - the State, who sent able counsel to Sacramento to present the shippers' side.
The forecasts proved of so much value to shippers and sailors that the work was handed over to the Department of Agriculture and enlarged (1891).
A red triangle indicates a dangerous local storm, is called the information flag meaning that shippers should apply to the Bureau for news of the direction in which the storm is travelling.
Give instances you have seen or heard of where two shipperspaid different rates for the same service.
In other cases favored shippers are given secret information that the rate is to be changed, so that they are enabled to regulate their shipments to secure the lower rate.
Discrimination between shippers (personal discrimination) is charging one person more than another for substantially the same service.
Already in 1913, a further act of Congress had made discrimination against shippers a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment.
It would seem that shippers sending parcels shorter distances must be charged too much and that shippers sending parcels longer distances must be charged too little.
Practically, then, there are not, and never can be, more than a few hundred places in the country where shippers will be able to choose different routes for sending their goods to market.
Therefore the shippers and buyers of goods at nine-tenths of the shipping points of the country must always be dependent on the facilities and rates offered by a single railway.
Queen Mary, admonished by the King of Sweden to interdict to her subjects the new navigation to Archangel, contented herself by forbidding the shippers who traded with the White Sea the exportation of arms.
The government is appealing to the courts to protect the shippers against the railroads.
Rebates could not be openly defended; but the business of the country was honeycombed with them, and the majority of the shippers in whose interest the law was passed did not want the prohibition enforced.
Its rates should be just to and open to all shippers alike.
The Hepburn bill, however, did not confer upon the Interstate Commerce Commission that power over rates which the Commission had long been urging as necessary to give shippers the relief they expected.
I would advise our shippers of oil always to get the certificate of the French consul in their State, if it be practicable, because those will admit of the least doubt here.
He sought to blow up the British frigate “Eagle” with the aid of a torpedo and nearly succeeded in doing so, seriously scaring the British shippers by the explosion of his torpedo.
As the hogs come in from the farmers and shippers they are received by the live stock department, where they are carefully sorted and graded, and then run into holding pens, to carry over until they shall be driven to slaughter.
But during all those years the Government was busy in letting the shippers dig into the public funds and in being extremely generous to them when they failed to pay up.
Many of these were destitute Irish who, after having been plundered and dispossessed by the absentee landlords and the capitalists of their own country, were induced to pay their last farthing to the shippersfor passage to America.
In this indirect way the shippers absorbed a great part of the products of his labor; what they did not expropriate the landlord did.
The shippers who stood as middlemen between the workers of the different countries reaped the great rewards.
Nevertheless, it should not be overlooked that the shippers played their distinct and useful part in their time and age, the spirit of which was intensely ultra-competitive and individualistic in the most sordid sense.
And in New York and other ports there were a number of shippers who made fortunes of several millions each.
In the contest for wealth it was inevitable that the shippers should fall behind.
Other shipperswho applied their surplus capital to investments in other forms of trade and ownership advanced rapidly in wealth.
The shippers engaged in the East India and China trade were more favored, it seems, than other classes of shippers, which discrimination engendered much antagonism.
They regretted the loss to shippers of all the perishable produce which to the value of millions of dollars had been rotting away at the docks.
The rumor of its coming had spread far over the country, andshippers were hurrying cargoes in.
Getting so much for nothing, both passengers and shippers congregate in the big cities, and add still further to the congestion, to the increased cost of the part of railroading.
Meanwhile the eastern shippers continued to pour goods into the flooded market.
Eastern shippers seemed, by a curious unanimity, to send out many consignments of the same scarcity.
In the small towns where most factories are, express and freight bills are paid once a month in a lump, and the clerks and shippers do not see the cost of each shipment.
But isn't it your experience that shippersdo make mistakes, and occasional overcharges are made?
In the meantime shippers are compelled to pay double prices for freights, because the railroad companies have not the necessary facilities for shipping; all has passed into the hands and under the control of the dispatch companies.
In law, railroad companies are bound to ship for all who pay the regular rates without bestowing a bounty upon elevator and warehouse men; and they are also bound to deliver the freight at such warehouses as the shippers direct.
The rule established by railroad companies, to force from shippers such rates as will pay interest or dividends upon an amount of imaginary stock, is unjust.
Shippers can compel the companies to receive their freights on board their cars at regular stations, and to deliver their freights at the place designated, irrespective of any and all combinations to prevent it.
This system would be subject to the abuses of which the shippers now complain.
So dangerous was Triunfo formerly considered as a landing-place, that Lloyd's had been advised by their agents not to issue insurances, but to allow shippers to take the risk.
United States to give hershippers an equal price; 9s.
But, contemporaneously with much of the mining in the West, there has been such a monopoly on ore treatment that great injustice has been wrought to the shippers of small lots of ore.
Certain shippers are allowed heavy rebates, while others are made to pay full rates.
Lain, of Davenport, was employed by certain shippers of that place to appear with me in the case.
Many shippers make a practice of crating goods because it can be done more cheaply than boxing, without realizing that the difference in packing cost is more than offset by the increase in the freight rate.
There are so many intricate details to be considered in the shipping problem, that the subject requires special study, and shippers whose volume of business is even moderate find it profitable to employ a traffic manager.
Since the rates must be made public, the railroads do not object to supplying shipperswith copies of the tariffs applying to their product.
The commodity rate is for the benefit of all shippers of the commodity named.
And, unfortunately, the carelessness of American shippers often costs the foreign merchants good, hard dollars.
Most shippers will need but a few of these sheets as the number of articles shipped by one house is small, as a rule.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shippers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
