Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then for twelve hours there was silence. Finally U. A. L. announced that its plane had been sighted, smashed near a saddle of Chalk Mountain in the bleak Uinta Range. When searchers next day reached it by pack horse and foot, they found 16 passengers, two pilots and a stewardess dead in the snow-covered wreckage-worst airplane accident in U. S. history...
Starting more than a year ago, the Union Pacific installed women attendants which it calls "stewardess-nurses." Union Pacific now has stewardess-nurses on all of its streamliners and on the Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Like airline hostesses, these girls must be registered nurses. The Baltimore & Ohio has five hostesses (nurses) on Manhattan to Chicago runs. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have hostess-nurses on their joint run from Chicago to the California coast...
...found his wife. Mr. & Mrs. Pannes both perished. Mrs. Hermann Doehner related in a husky monotone how she tossed two of her children out of a window, then scrambled out herself with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when...
Elopement Revealed. Cranston ("Boo") Paschall, 24, student aviator, stepson of Seattle's Airplane-Maker William Edward Boeing; and Marguerite Simanek. 26, red-haired United Air Lines stewardess; to Carson City...
Investigating railroading for a Bennington (Vt.) college report, Sophomore Mary Harriman, daughter of Union Pacific Railroad's Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, toured U. P.'s Omaha engine shops for three days, served as a stewardess on a U. P. day-coach to Cheyenne...