Word: shiploads
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Most of the cargo would have to ripen before being sold. Then it will go to under-18s only; adults must wait for the next shipload from Jamaica...
...trouble began when word got about that the Russians had brought a whole shipload of caviar and vodka. Actually, the Russian ship anchored in San Fran cisco Bay was there primarily for radio communication with Moscow. Some of the delegation lived aboard, and they presumably had a supply of their national food and drink. But the refreshments were incidental. Thanks to Russian secrecy about the ship, and the press's failure to check, tongues were clacking furiously when Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov arrived by plane from Washington...
This week when I was aboard the Solace Dr. Richmond Beck of Huntington, Long Island, a psychiatrist, was the embarkation officer. It was 7 o'clock in the evening and the Solace was receiving her second shipload of Saipan wounded...
Each man was tagged with a piece of white cardboard from a compartmented box. "When we run out of tags we know we've got a shipload," one doctor explained. Each wounded man's clothes are thrown overboard. He is refitted with fresh dungarees when he goes ashore...
...hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson...