Word: glenview
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Except for a few Annapolis midshipmen who elect to join the naval air service, the U. S. Navy recruits its pilots through the Naval Reserve. At 13 Reserve air stations-Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Opa Locka (Miami), Kansas City, Glenview (Chicago), Seattle, etc.-an ever-increasing tide of would-be fliers is rolling in. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that three more Reserve stations would soon be opened (at New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta), also supplied some details about the Navy's expanding air training program...
Last week, just before the attack on Holland, reticent Mr. Ward casually announced that he had just received a Christmas card from Glenview, ILL. signed "Hal and Olive"; unwittingly appeared to have knocked his masquerade into a cocked hat. Glenview (pop. 1,886), 20 miles from Chicago, is too small for secrets. Hal and Olive were promptly discovered to be Harold and Olive Kennicott, longtime friends of one Edward Leopold Delaney, with whom they had corresponded in. Berlin...