shipload

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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The price of a shipload of L.N.G., which might have sold for $20 million two years ago, soared to perhaps $200 million last summer, and is now about half that, with winter fast approaching.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson.

From Fox News • Feb. 8, 2019

The Syracuse Post-Standard on lessons Americans can learn today from Ruth Gruber, a Jewish journalist who also helped secretly escort a shipload of Jewish refugees from Italy to the United States in 1944.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2016

The very real fear that the British would free America’s enslaved people was as important as a shipload of tea or a slogan such as “No taxation without representation.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis