Word: aviatress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saund defeated Republican Jacqueline Cochran Odium, who was herself born in abject poverty. She rose to fame as an aviatress, and to wealth as the wife of Financier Floyd Odium and as a highly successful businesswoman (cosmetics). But during the flamboyant campaign, some voters decided that high-flying Jackie Cochran was trying to dazzle her way into public office. Others resented the fact that after years of aloofness she had become neighborly only during her campaign. "Saund," said one, "is at least one of us. Mrs. Odium...
...aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan who vaulted from a Tobacco Road childhood to interna tional fame as an aviatress, businesswoman (cosmetics) and the wife of Financier Floyd Odium, was flying south. It was another day in her nonstop campaign for Congress...
...airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs. As Mrs. Floyd Odium she is a social leader, a world traveler, the friend of celebrities...
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