Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show will plug the Harvard Band's concert performance, "Drumbeats and song," and will include two songs by the "Riffs" and eight short numbers by the Krocodiloes...
Jack and Jill* had earned its birthday party, and the Post's plug. Curtis Publishing Co., which launched Jack and Jill as an experiment, then withdrew it from the newsstands during the war to save paper, had watched its mail circulation rise to nearly 500,000 (including 220 in Braille). Beginning with the anniversary issue, Jack and Jill will be back on the newsstands...
...publishing the first of eleven books on local industries-their growth, what they make, how they make it, etc. Schools have agreed to use them as supplementary texts. I.I.I, is now preparing a manual of jobs available for graduating seniors, to be followed up by talks by industrialists to plug the theme that local opportunities are "as good as any in the U.S." In the works for moppets (and their seniors): a 16-page comic book on free enterprise...
Machines' electronic calculating punch now does multiplication, cross-addition, cross-subtraction and division electronically for the first time in business-machine history. The show also had many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls...
...development of the torch-light parade was delayed by the Civil War, but in 1868 the College, Republicans all, terrified Boston. Every student put on his class uniform, bought himself a shingle, a plug hat, and a black bottle with a wick in it, and went on the march for Grant and Seymour...