Word: sparks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India was ready for a spark. Drought wrote a warning of famine across the country; Russia at UNO had fanned the winds of Asiatic nationalism. A trivial incident at Bombay touched off the British Empire's worst rebellion since the great Sepoy Mutiny...
...manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. From there he moved to Chicago's United Wallpaper, Inc. as president at $27,000 a year. When war came he went to Washington, made a name as a red-tape slasher, ended up as a brigadier general, Assistant Director of Materiel. He spark-plugged renegotiation, set up the highly efficient contract termination system...
...Three new synthetic engine lubricants, all from different sources (silicones, natural gas and other organic chemicals) were previewed last week. The makers' claim: all three have a fairly constant rate of flow in boiling heat or freezing cold; none forms sludge, carbon or varnish on cylinder heads and spark plugs. California's Union Oil Co. joined the chorus with a motor oil called "New Triton," which is long-wearing, noncorrosive, sludge-free...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
...twice in the first period over badly battered Lowell and went on to win easily, adding scores in the third and fourth quarters. Harry Booth and Dowey Archambeault paced the small Gold Coast squad, and the Bellboys' futile offense got nowhere against the victors' line. Joe Cannon provided some spark but the cellar-dwelling eleven never caught fire and were never in the game...