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...Rochester, habitual minor leaguer, had a V12 program and the prospects of a lifetime...
...studies-and positively no football. These A-12 trainees, said the Army, would have no time for football (not even, presumably, the kind that servicemen in the Aleutians are playing). Navy and Marine officials, on the contrary, okayed football for 77,000 bluejackets and leathernecks in 181 colleges with V12 programs. Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving...
...highest individual score was made by J. L. Eldredge of the V12 unit and the crew. Of the sports, the highest group score was made in Military Track, where 26 civilians, 41 V-12ers and 22 NROTC men compiled an average of 89.2. The NROTC Mil. Track men had the highest group average in the College, hitting an "excellent...
...Columbia is now the world's largest producer of Naval officers : enrolled are 2,500 midshipmen, 200 Coast Guards men, about 400 officers getting advanced training, 728 uniformed V12 (Navy College Training Program) students, most of whom will get a stripe and a taste of war before they get a degree...
...they even had an order. When the Government finally asked Ford to put up a Pratt & Whitney plant, he figured that OPM had set its sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...