Word: cahokia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he talked a group of St. Louis businessmen into financing his expansion, to a new Parks Airport across the river from St. Louis at Cahokia, Ill. He signed up 400 students after some whirlwind publicity. By the early thirties, he smartly anticipated a glut of pilots, shifted the emphasis to aviation engineering. Today Parks students still learn to fly, at the 113-acre campus-airport, but spend most of their 2½-year course (for a B.S. degree) on the ground. In World War II Parks trained 24,000 A.A.F. flyers at five schools...