Word: ramps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...train carried the bodies from London to near Cardington, where a great pit had been prepared. While bombers circled, Royal Air Force men carried the coffins down a ramp, laid them in orderly rows, twelve coffins...