Word: seventeen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventeen of my squadron mates sleep the long sleep in France...
...prospect of a severe counter-blockade by Nazi U-boats and planes threatened Great Britain. >Germany expected to loot enough to eat till autumn, hoped by then to have conquered enough more to master next winter's problem. Otherwise the Nazis looked to be in for it. Seventeen per cent short of food self-sufficiency, the Reich has brigaded its appetite, lived off stored-up peacetime surpluses. It lacks men enough to till its own fields, has had to summon 30,000 agricultural laborers from Italy and import thousands of Polish slaves. Nor can Denmark and Norway be expected...
...Seventeen years later he was chief engineer of the famed old Philadelphia shipbuilding firm of William Cramp & Sons Co., which went to the wall in 1928. Now 66, a bachelor, he owns scores of patents on new shipbuilding techniques, has given his company and the U. S. Government the right to use all of them without royalties...
Jaako Mikkola's cohorts embarked by bus yesterday afternoon Hanoverbound for a dual meet with the Indiana. Because of divisionals many of the seventeen Seniors on the squad will be unable to make the trip...
...long record of commanding where shot & shell are thickest. A Boer and World War I veteran, he has won a V. C. and lost an eye and a hand in the King's service. The General has every reason for wanting another crack at the Germans. Seventeen years ago he retired to an estate in Poland which he will not see again until World War II is settled...