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• Easter Saturday was the day when the fatal hour arrived to strike, and the Germans sent their shiploads to Ireland; but the old British Navy had their tip in time, and they arrested the arms and sent the ships to the bottom of. the sea, and the German submarine ran to Ireland with Sir Roger Casement, who was supposed to be the Ambassador at the Court of Berlin-we have a wonderful lot of ambassadors, but somehow they are living out of Ireland, a whole lot of them (laughter) and they are remaining away for Ireland's good, and I trust that what will happen to poor de Valera is what happened to some men like Casement. The Irish Problem
• Two shiploads of cranes were exported from the port to Barcelona in January.
• A ship called the Jolly George was awaiting a shipload of arms destined for Polish troops in London's East End docks in May.
• Several shiploads of grain arrived in the harbor that day.
• They lived and worked as ‘free persons’ even when a Portuguese vessel arrived with the first shipload of blacks enslaved in 1629.
• New Zealand has been spared, and now radiation has diminished enough to allow this shipload of scientists of all kinds to explore the remains of civilization.
• As logs are lashed, he lists the many benefits to Astoria of bringing in a log exporter, including dozens of $40-an-hour stevedore jobs filled with every shipload, and some $100,000 in wharfing fees each month. Log Exports Hammer Lumber Mills
• They gave him a bank cheque drawn on the Standard Bank of Africa for $25 million to supply ten shiploads of rice.
• Shiploads of thuja are what my body wants to say to your body. Chris Abani on the stories of Africa
• The immigrants worked as free people until 1629 when a Portuguese vessel arrived with the first shipload of blacks captured off the west coast of Africa.