Word: boosters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer for Newspaperdom, journalistic trade-sheet, compared newspapers of the West and East, noted differences. He proposed that Eastern editors learn from Westerners: 1) "Greater local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news." 3) "Higher subscription prices." That the West learn from the East: 1) "More attention to the man who writes to the papers" (i.e., cinema, sport, health, politics, joke fans.) 2) " Better sporting departments." 3) "Better first pages." 4) "Snappier news and editorial writing." The writer then closed, mellifluously: "Papers everywhere...
...John Talty of the Franklin Railway Supply Company will lecture at 8 o'clock this evening in Plerce Hall 110 on "The Locomotive Booster...
Professor H. N. Davis G. '03 and Associate Professor A. E. Norton, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University, are responsible for improvements in design and operation which have put the "Locomotive Booster" into use by most railroads in this country and in England. Although Mr. Ingersoll, an engineer of the New York Central Railroad, first thought of the device, it is the work of Professors Davis and Norton that has made the invention a commercial success...
...Booster" is an auxiliary steam engine which, place under the cab, drives the trailer wheels and gives the locomotive a boost. It is especially useful in starting heavy trains and in climbing grades at low speed when the boiler is generating more steam than the main cylinders...
Moving pictures will be shown by Mr. Talty at the meeting on Thursday night, illustrating the application of the "Booster" Professor Davis will explain some special features of the invention and the whole meeting will be of a popular nature. Refreshments will be served after the speeches. The meeting will begin at 8 o'clock and will be open to all members of the University...