Word: boosterism
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...family air yacht," a four-passenger dirigible newly built by Capt. Anton Heinen, bobbed at its stubby mooring mast at Toms River, N. J. one chilly afternoon last week. When the engine refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...confused with a "booster" magneto, for auxiliary starting ignition, the compressed-air principle is also used in starting ordinary engines in heavier-than-aircraft (e. g. the Heywood starter). Other types are: 1) hand inertia; 2) electric inertia, comparable to the automobile starter, by means of a storage battery; 3) a device inserted into an engine cylinder and employing a 12-gauge shotgun shell. When the shell is fired, it creates enough compression to turn the engine several times. The latter device, invented in France, was first shown in the U. S. by Charles A. Levine. Option for its manufacture...
...voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis-for-President] campaign manager for New York." Soon afterward, the article said, Curtis-booster Glaser asked Administrator Campbell to approve a whiskey permit for a pharmacy in the Cornish Arms Hotel (against which padlock proceedings later were brought) and a permit for withdrawing 700 gal. of alcohol per month for Spa Chemical Co. (which later was caught illegally diverting this alcohol...
...With Booster Glaser was Joseph Steinberg, lawyer, aspirant for the Attorney-Generalship. They used Charles Curtis's name freely, made warm pre-election promises. After he had refused to grant either permit on Glaser's recommendation, Administrator Campbell received a letter from Director Doran beginning: "You are advised that Senator Curtis has again called my attention to the application of the Spa Chemical Co." The permit was then obtained. He quotes Director Doran as saying: "I believe you are absolutely right . . . but I should hate to have Senator Curtis on my tail." The Administrator commented last week...
...fact that some residents with automobiles drove to neighboring towns to go shopping, and a few residents even moved out. But this has stopped. Says Dr. Paul B. Lonergan, now president of the Association: "It rid the town of its God-given deadbeats." He is a strong booster of the plan because after two years of practice in Bloomfield he had lost $2,200 through bad debts...