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...chance were any of you in the neighborhood of the tunnel exit yesterday? Or the bridge ramp this side? A disgusting spectacle. Here were hundreds of American cars, lined up bumper to bumper, coming to Windsor for just one thing. Gas. The Government allows each 'tourist' twelve gallons. All he has to say is that he's going to Tilbury or Stoney Point or Leamington or North Bay. ... He gets the little book...
...Chicago, a 3,000-lb. elephant named Judy, on her feet all day doing publicity for the book department, nervously refused to leave the third floor of the Marshall Field department store by the freight elevator which brought her, consented to depart five hours later down a special ramp built onto the fire stairs...
...opened the port of Antwerp to the Allies. Other sites seemed to be located in the Dutch coastal area north of the Maas. The London Evening Standard described the launching apparatus as a steel platform slightly bigger than a tennis court. "During actual launching operations," said the Standard, "the ramp is constantly sprayed with jets of ice-cold water because as the rocket shoots into the air, heat develops which expands the steel frame . . . and bends...
...double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge (see cut) or cargo...
...cheering lasted ten minutes, as the President's car entered the stadium, half-circled the field, then drove up on a ramp. Microphones were set up on the tonneau, and the President spoke from his car. Again he opened with sarcasm: "This is the strangest campaign I have ever seen. I have listened to various Republican orators . . . and what do they say? 'Those incompetent blunderers and bunglers in Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws about social security and labor and farm relief and soil conservation. . . . Those same quarrelsome, tired old men, they have built the greatest...