Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less, temporarily, petitioned NLRB for a strike vote in 96 plants of General Motors Corp. The Board forthwith scheduled the vote for Oct. 24. The strike, certain to be voted by U.A.W.'s membership, would take 325,000 workers off the job in the industry which is the spark plug of postwar prosperity...
Most Italians and Allied observers feared, with good cause, that the spark that would set off an explosion would come from the Communists. The Communists were not numerically strong in Catholic Italy. But the Red organization was well-knit. It had demonstrated before, at Andria, that it knew how to carry out an armed coup...
...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark plug behind the Navy's development of radar. Last fortnight the Navy showed that it likes the Admiral's spirit. It gave him a big new job: boss of all research on new naval weapons and techniques...
...clean, sharp-nerved charm which used to distinguish the adventure romances of the late great Douglas Fairbanks Sr. A shade less inspired than Fairbanks as an athlete, Cagney is an even better actor. He cannot even put a telephone receiver back on its hook without giving the action special spark and life. Moreover, liberal Actor-Producer Cagney is a man of sense and good will. He takes care, even in the midst of this angry bit of patriotism, to show that there are honorable and anti-militaristic Japanese as well as the sort who took the nation over-and that...