Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, dog-tired but cheery, Ike walked down the landing ramp at the Northolt airport near London, cracked: "This is Northolt, isn't it? I used to drink coffee here." He slept late on Sunday, sat around his Claridge's Hotel suite most of the day, then went to an informal dinner at U.S. Ambassador Walter Gifford...
...landed, the familiar bony face, the hawk nose, the mustache, the Homburg, were framed in a cabin window. The plane, the President's Independence, rolled to a stop at the Military Air Transport Service terminal in Washington, and the most controversial figure in international politics came down the ramp. It was Christmas week, and the U.S. Secretary of State had flown in a few hours from snowy Brussels into the freezing pre-dawn of Washington. Still standing, in effect, between two continents, he shook hands with a greeter. How was the weather in Europe? "The weather was very...
...Landing Ship-Tank) has bow doors and beaching ramp, elevators to lift tanks or other cargo from the hold to the main level. Length: 328 feet (World War II models) or 382 feet (postwar models...
...Landing Ship - Utility), the former LCT, carries five 30-ton tanks or 150 tons of combat cargo discharged over a bow ramp. Generally transported to landing area aboard an LST, LSD or cargo ship. Length: 120 feet...
...ramp went down. Within seconds the first tank was chugging its way across the beach. Behind it, marines worked desperately, unloading food and ammunition...