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...early days it was grounded so frequently by "bugs" in the 30 miles of wiring, tubing and cables that the crews dubbed it "the ramp rooster." But after long, slow shakedown, it is now admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...
Dogged Battle. As boss of "Operation Red Ramp" (for Red rampage), with nearly 5,000 army, navy and air force men under his command, Morton's job was to prevent complete inundation of Canada's fourth largest city (pop. 320,000). At least 10,000 houses and eight of greater Winnipeg's 75 square miles were already flooded; traffic on two of the city's key bridges was cut off, dividing the area into semi-isolated segments. The water level stood twelve feet above the point of first flooding. The city's vital power stations...
...sleety Washington rain, two black official limousines rolled down 21st Street, driving well beyond the main entrance of the Department of State to turn sharply down a side ramp into State's naked concrete loading basement. Burly Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stepped from his Cadillac into a private elevator, punched the button for the fifth floor. Across the basement General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dressed in civilian grey, got out of his car, strode briskly across the floor and got into a second private elevator...
...plane taxied to a stop on Rio's Santos Dumont Airfield, 5,000 waiting citizens rushed toward it. A roar went up as the door opened to frame the bulky figure of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Attendants struggled to push the loading ramp through the crowd. When they got it within two feet of the plane, Adhemar jumped. The crowd applauded wildly. Then Adhemar fought his way, grinning, down the steps to set foot in Rio for the first time in two years. He had come to open his formal campaign...
Harry Truman was in a holiday mood from the moment he stepped out of the presidential DC-6 Independence at Boca Chica airport near Key West. He paused on the loading ramp, grinned and held his broad-brimmed tan hat high for the photographers. Then, coming down, he shook hands with white-uniformed Captain Cecil C. Adell, commander of the naval base to which he was bound, and demanded...