Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that high concept there can be no end save victory." The President handed Messrs. Garner and Rayburn each a formal presentation copy of the speech, shook their hands, walked slowly down the ramp from the rostrum. The crowd still stood outside the Capitol a little while after he had driven away...
...special ramp for Willkie's car has already been constructed next to the subway wall near the Common. According to the local Willkie Committee, the Republican candidate will speak from his car over a public address system to people in the Common...
...Willkie procession will stop here at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, just long enough in its tour through the environs of Boston for the Republican nominee to give a short talk at the west side of the Common. A special ramp for Willkie's car will be constructed next to the subway wall, from which he will speak over a public address system...
...eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license 104) rolled down the cindery hill road from the village, heading a small procession. The villagers, mostly Republicans (they were saying so all evening) rattled a few handclaps as Eleanor Roosevelt, in a loose, flowered green dress, stepped out first and walked around to stand beside the ramp; rattled again...