Word: elmira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Co. Elmira...
...Manhattan, and next week she will begin training as the first Negro stewardess on a scheduled U.S. airline. She is the second Negro to be hired for passenger flight duty (the first: Pilot Perry H. Young, 38, of New York Airways helicopter service). Ruth Taylor, Boston-born, attended Elmira College, graduated as a registered nurse from Manhattan's Bellevue School of Nursing, worked as a nurse for the New York City Transit Authority before signing on with Mohawk...
...maxim-minded mother ("Little strokes fell big oaks") and the example of a father who was a failure as a farmer and hotelkeeper. After working his way through Cornell, Newsman Gannett had risen to managing editor of the Ithaca News before he bought a half share of the ailing Elmira Gazette in 1906 (for $20,000), later merged it with the rival Evening Star. Gannett started looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest newspaper hyphenator in upstate New York. From Rochester, where he merged the Union & Advertiser with the Times...
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First Baptist Church Elmira...