Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Francis Baer is "a comer [who will] cut a big figure in this business." But last week he turned his spotlight upon another of his executives: big, dark, 54-year-old Carl F. Wente, who stepped into a newly created job as senior vice president of Bank of America...
That air power was being wielded with fluid brilliance by a pair of past masters: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
TIME, June 14, carried an exciting account of the exploits performed by Brigadier General Carl R. Gray's special railway corps in North Africa. Perhaps your readers will be interested in the background of a typical unit in this special corps...
Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, U.S. commander of the Northwest African Air Force, last fortnight spelled out this fact and what it means, incidentally throwing much light on recent activities and immediate prospects in the Mediterranean. Air power, he said, has now proved that it can reduce any military obstacle. But, he also said, it can do so only if it is assembled in overpowering force: the Allies did not propose to apply it until they were certain that the force at hand was sufficient for the job. General George C. Marshall, in his sobering speech the same week (TIME...
...saying, stocky Carl Elbridge Newton last week left his job as president of the bustling, kitten-conscious Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, thrust his feet under a Washington desk, and got set for a tough summer and a hard winter as operator of the Government-seized coal mines...