Word: sparkplugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sparkplug of Newfoundland's drive to the future is a bouncy, bow-tied little (5 ft. 6 in.) man, Joseph Roberts Smallwood, 51, the provincial premier. A onetime radio announcer, Joey Smallwood stumped the island in 1948, and almost singlehandedly broke down its stubborn resistance to union with Canada. Elected the first premier, he set up an economic program that has brought a healthy flow of industry and capital into the province. Newfoundland's low income is already up nearly 300% above the 1939 level, and Joey Smallwood's drive is still going strong. Last week...
President and sparkplug of Exposition is Edward Uhlan, a 39-year-old immigrant's son who graduated from Manhattan's tough Hell's Kitchen, but not from high school. His 16 years in vanity publishing have taught him that the business can be both legitimate and profitable. Exposition gives its writers a contract whose terms are frank and clear, sends out review copies and news releases, tries, like all publishers, to build publicity and promotional hocus-pocus (autographing parties, press interviews, radio appearances, etc.). For about $2,000, Exposition will give an author some 2,000 copies...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
Spartan Sparker. Boeing Airplane Co. has developed a new antifouling sparkplug for gas engines that it says is the "first significant design change in sparkplugs in 30 years." The new plug, not in production yet, has its ignition points recessed inside its shell instead of sticking out the end, has been run 20 times longer than other plugs without cleaning...
...months of soul-searching, Ockenga turned the offer down, to his congregation's surprise and joy. "Now what you say to us will mean more," said a member of his flock, and the Park Street Church has grown by 50% since that time. Last year Ockenga was sparkplug and chief organizer for Boston revival meetings with Evangelist Billy Graham that netted "at least 3,000 decisions for Christ" in 18 days...