Word: tooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus to the U.S., already great in military and scientific prowess, had come man's most destructive weapon. To the U.S. Army Air Forces had been given the means for complete destruction of Japan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his Pacific flyers could now blow the enemy into the sea, for one atomic bomb dropped from one plane can wreak the same destruction as 2,000 B-29s (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Soong, General Krueger and Senator Vandenberg, Mrs. Jimmy Doolittle and the mother of General Mark Clark. TIME'S painting of General Patton is framed at his Massachusetts home "Green Meadow" - General Somervell's portrait is in his office at the Pentagon Building - and our painting of General "Tooey" Spaatz hangs on the wall of his wife's home in Washington ("I have never seen a picture of him half as good," she wrote Artist Baker...
...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's Strategic Air Force (Superfortresses from Doolittle's Eighth and LeMay's Twentieth-TIME, July 16) will operate under neither Nimitz nor MacArthur. Its bosses: General "Hap" Arnold and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington...
...Pacific air war. At this point, the Eighth is responsible directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is obvious that an air chief will soon be needed on the spot, to coordinate the strategic bombing operations of LeMay and Doolittle. Best guess for the job: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, the U.S.'s top air general at present unemployed...
...Busy at a poker game when the news was given him, Tooey Spaatz's characteristic comment was: "Whose deal...