sparkplug

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McCormick decentralized the company's management, sparkplugged its $150 million postwar expansion, helped boost profits from $22 million in 1946 to $66,700,000 last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since 1946 a group of Brown professors, sparkplugged by Vice President Bruce M. Bigelow, has been looking for a solution.

From Time Magazine Archive

They remembered Matthews from 1946, when he sparkplugged a U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wilson did an impressive job of converting the nation's largest corporation to military production during World War II, and sparkplugged its huge, postwar expansion program.

From Time Magazine Archive

The membership promotion consisted of a campaign called the "Vice-president's Campaign" sparkplugged by Mr. Best.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association