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...alumni on active duty, over 40 per cent are in service on the sea, as members of the Navy, Marine Corps, of Coast Guard. Seventeen men are driving ambulances with the American Field Service in Libya, while a total of 26 graduates are active in various branches of the Canadian and British forces. Six of these...
Already thousands of Axis nationals had been crowded into Brazilian jails or were swinging picks and shovels in labor camps; all Germans were being moved from the hump, where sea and air patrols had been stepped up. Seventeen Axis ships had been seized and three of Brazil's largest Axis-owned banks-with assets of nearly $35,000,000-had been closed by presidential decree. A final step in severing the Brazilian Condor airline from German-owned Lufthansa had been taken: its property now belonged to the Government...
These scholarships are the annual Harvard Awards to High School Seniors for outstanding character and merit. Seventeen states in the South, Middle West, and Far West are represented among the recipients, including men from California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Keutucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missourt, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...Seventeen of those who were not immediately accepted on the basis of the physical were disqualified, while another 17 were placed in a "hold" category, including men with correctable defects such as being underweight and having decayed teeth...
General Brereton's lively brown eyes took in two familiar shapes: a pair of Flying Fortresses, in their dull camouflage, standing on the tarmac. Seventeen days had passed since he led them on a flight to the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, where their bombs socked a Jap cruiser and a Jap troopship. On this Sunday morning, he had flown to the airdrome to reward the Fortress crews with Silver Stars* for their coolness and success under Japanese anti-aircraft and fighter fire. That honorable duty done (including the acceptance of a Silver Star himself), he performed...