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...President of the United States labored up the long ramp to the Speaker's dais, leaning on the arm of his military aide Major General Edwin M. Watson. He grasped the edge of the reading stand with one big hand, discarded his thick mahogany cane, slapped down his old black notebook. For two minutes his audience-the Congressmen, the diplomats, the Cabinet, the dignitaries and plain people in the galleries-applauded for this stouthearted man who cannot walk, yet does...
...Henry Kaiser's Portland shipyards, the President watched the launching of the Joseph N. Teal-first ship in the world ever to hit the water ten days after keel laying (TIME, Oct. 5). He and bald Henry Kaiser sat in the open automobile, atop a wooden ramp, while torches burned through the steel plates that held the Teal in place. Down slid the ship. Mrs. Boettiger swung a champagne bottle so hard that she was drenched...
...White House phaeton coasted down a ramp to Washington's Navy Yard wharf. The top was down, the bulletproof glass windows up. On the back seat were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in white linen suit and a Panama hat, Eleanor Roosevelt in white, and handsome, sad-eyed Crown Princess Martha of Norway, in mourning for her cousin-by-marriage, the late Duke of Kent, her severe black dress and hat relieved only by a double strand of gleaming pearls...
Back up the ramp went the President's automobile. Aboard the King Haakon VII the little crew of freemen prepared for a shakedown cruise down the muddy Potomac River, for the hazardous stalking of U-boats in the North Atlantic, for the faraway hope of riding proudly into home port...
...Cadet S. Weitzman was so relieved at completing his cross-country flight that he released his controls while still rolling on his landing and shook hands with himself. The plane merrily ground-looped down the ramp...