Word: boosterism
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...circulation booster, Le Matin's question was an unqualified success. Press and public not only buzzed over the antic notion of an auto trip across Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew...
...Russians have not told the thrust of the first-stage rockets that tossed their Sputniks off the earth, and U.S. authorities do not agree about this detail. Major General John B. Medaris, the Army's missile chief, says that the booster of Sputnik III would need 500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust...
...Business Booster McCormack had other bait, such as low Irish wages (average: $21 for a 48-hour week), low power rates (1 per kw-h). low living costs (50? for round steak, 24? for a shot of fine Irish whisky), and the idea that the U.S. manufacturer in Ireland will be able to sell his goods tariff-free to the future European free-trade area, which Ireland intends to join. The free-trade area should prove particularly attractive to businessmen who set up plants in the 200-acre customs-free zone around Shannon Airport in County Clare...
...plants that would not compete with existing Irish industries, e.g., new plants for chemicals, tools, toys, plywood products. Its yearly goal is to attract $56 million in new industrial investment, create 15,000 jobs. For the bulk of this, Ireland looks to the U.S. Said Booster McCormack in his Manhattan office: "Any American businessman who is interested in Ireland has only to call me, from any part of the country, and I will come to see him in 24 hours...
Counting on the success of the X-15, North American has proposed a beefed-up version with a booster rocket that will push it up to orbiting speed (18,000 m.p.h.). It will climb into genuine space, well above 150 miles. There will be no human pilot on the first flights. Automatic instruments will ride the winged satellite around the earth for awhile. Then, perhaps on electronic command from below, they will glide it to earth. Later, as the art develops, the first human pilot may take the same ride...