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...Seventeen Points. This episode neatly epitomized the apparent state of U.S. foreign policy last week-long on ideals, short on plans...
...Milwaukee, the would-be Dewey delegation held a smoky, six-hour conference, spoke many a harsh word about their hero's 13th-hour repudiation. Seventeen of them-not for love of Dewey but because they cannot bear Willkie-decided to stick it out despite the Governor's "disapproval...
...Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting to join those 17. In all, 31 cities throughout Germany have been smacked since last December in 48 attacks of 500 tons or more...
...questionnaire check made by instructors in the radio engineering classes reveals in the interesting fact that many men now studying how to conduct communications work aboard ship have already had service with the fleet or with the U.S. Army. One hundred and seventeen, or nine per cent, are in this group...
Another Enterprise "first" was her participation in the original attack on Guadalcanal, providing air cover for the first Marine landing parties. Seventeen days later she was back again to help when the Japs made their supreme bid to regain the island, sending a big task force with three or four carriers. Enterprise, another carrier and land-based Army and Marine bombers combined to turn the enemy back; aircraft from Enterprise shot down 30 Jap planes and sank...