Speculators, financiers, company Promotors, editors, reporters, photographers, miners, and out-of-works generally made his life a burden.
"The Squire's Daughter"
Silas K(itto) Hocking
Another form of lake vessel of which great things were expected, but which disappointed its Promotors, is the "whaleback," commonly called by the sailors "pigs."
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Then, for all the world as in the promotion of a modern company, the consulting engineer of the original Promotors reappears.
"Hills and the Sea"
H. Belloc