Word: booster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They arrive in installments, bowl, post scores and depart. Until bowling alleys-pine, shellacked seven times-have been used for a fortnight or more, experts find them unsatisfactory. Consequently, earliest events scheduled at the Congress are those for the least competent entrants. Last week's competitors were mostly "booster" teams, from in or near New York. Best individual score of the week was 690, posted by one Jim Reinsmith of Syracuse...
...Nevada the State Legislature ratified the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution and Franklin Roosevelt, biggest booster of that Amendment, was pleased to chalk up the 26th endorsement, leaving...
This excellent conduit consists essentially of two copper tubes with copper wires running through the centre of each, the whole sheathed in lead. The current travels on the inside wall of the tubes, the outside skin of the wires. Whereas ordinary telephone trunk lines have booster stations at least every 50 miles, serviced by human attendants, the coaxial cable has automatic booster stations every ten miles, accessible through manholes if repairs are needed...
...such a potential guest list, preparations were on a grand scale. Congress appropriated $75,000, the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association) put up $75,000 more, the National Electrical Manufacturers $25,000. Many a utility man contributed with his fingers crossed, because the New Deal was an enthusiastic booster for the conference. Secretary of the Interior Ickes headed the American National Committee while the Executive Committee was chairmanned by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke. New Deal officials soothed timid power men with promises that the meetings would be kept free of political propaganda. Nevertheless, most of the agenda...
Sirs: All kudos to Eurich and Wilson for the Current Affairs Test in the magazine for June 29. I hied myself straightway to this town's first TIME-booster, Author August W. Derleth, candidly hoping to catch him with little better than a college average. Despite the fact that he is revising a major novel on option to Scribner's Sons, putting together an anthology of poems for another New York publisher, and arranging a book of his own poetry besides reading for review and otherwise an average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth...