Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McLean, which operates 1,425 trucks and trailers and 37 terminals all along the East Coast and last year grossed $19.2 million, has in mind a system similar to the "sea trains" used by the railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
...addition to career work, part-time summer jobs are also available in most factories and airports. Ramp and cargo handlers, office work, catering service and other minor services have made many summers profitable for college undergraduates...
...presidential plane Columbine opened, and a pretty young woman stepped forward. A moment later her husband, who had piloted the plane for 100 miles on the trip from New York to Washington, joined her. Then, arm in arm, the King and Queen of Greece walked down the ramp toward Secretary of State Dulles...
...Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...
Crown Prince Akihito, 35,000 miles, 197 days and 14 countries after leaving home, returned triumphantly to Japan. As he stepped from airplane to ramp to red velvet carpet, well-wishers shrieked "Banzai!", flashbulbs popped, the Yokohama customs office brass band blared the national anthem, and 500 rounds of fireworks boomed in downtown Tokyo. Self-possessed Akihito nodded to 200 official greeters (including Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison) on his march down the 50-yd. carpet, waved to 500,000 rain-washed faithful on the drive to the Imperial Palace. There he was received...