Word: haps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transport Command in Washington, ended up as a major general. His old boss, Lieut. General Harold L. George, gives him the "principal credit" for success. Used to cracking out orders himself, C.R. was not awed by brass. George remembers vividly the time Smith disagreed with General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Force chief. "C.R. turned around and said," recalled George, " 'Hap, that's a hell of a way to run a railroad...
Mathematics was at that time studied all four years, culminating in differential calculus. Chemistry was studied in a somewhat hap-hazard manner for a small part of the senior year, while French and Spanish were regarded by students as recreations rather than studies...
...general ideas. Vannevar Bush has been joined over the years by some of the nation's foremost military thinkers: onetime Army Chief of Staff (1945-48) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Generals Joseph Lawton Collins and George C. Marshall. Air Generals Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Joseph T. McNarney, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett, former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter and Los Angeles Industrialist John McCone, who served as special assistant to Defense Secretary Forrestal in 1948 and as Air Force Under Secretary in 1950-51. Although they differ in detail, all have advocated what amounts...
...entered World War II he was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence, with a growing service reputation as the headiest young staff officer in the Air Corps. From then on, his rise into the military stratosphere was at missile speed. Tapped by the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold ("I need somebody to help me do my thinking"), Norstad became a peripatetic planner. Starting off as air operations officer for General Jimmy Doolittle's Twelfth Air Force in Britain and North Africa, he soon moved up to the same job in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces...
...Myer, Va., takes him early (8:25) to work in Suite 4E924 of the Pentagon, where he is soon stirring up memorandums and directives-green for LeMay, pink for able Air Force Secretary James Douglas, white for his staff. Around him hangs the sense of illustrious predecessors: husky, flamboyant "Hap" Arnold; sinewy, battle-tried "Tooey" Spaatz; slim Hoyt Vandenberg, the old flyer with a 50-mission crush in his cap; Nate Twining, the wise old pilot who led the USAF from props to jets. There Tommy White does his broad-gauge best with what he has. But nobody...