Word: florez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes for advice to Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer...
...Florez & the Future. The Navy has done less promotion, but if any man can be said to have sparked the whole wartime program, it is the Navy's stocky, dynamic Captain Luis de Florez, chief of the Special Devices Division (which was incorporated this month into the Navy's new Office of Research and Inventions). To help solve the Navy's training problems, de Florez gave up a lucrative (about $100,000 a year) practice as consulting engineer to several oil companies. A bland, exuberant genius, he has invented scores of big and little gadgets (including...