Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised $140,000 to form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United Air Lines stewardess, still occasionally flies with him, as stewardess). On his flights he keeps a sharp eye out for new business; so do his pilots. One recently took off with a load of Army supplies for Germany. In Paris he loaded up with Jewish emigrants bound for Australia, in Australia he drummed up a cargo...
...afternoon last week a shining Lockheed Lodestar settled on to the broad runway at Daniel Field, a wartime bomber base in Augusta, Ga. Out of the plane stepped a smiling man whose arrival three years ago would have brought the whole big base to crackling attention. Gasped an airline stewardess: "It's Ike Eisenhower...
...America : "They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots. In restaurants, of all places, they found red tape as endless as spaghetti...
Afterward, blonde Stewardess Jane Bray, 28, remembered it this...
Fourteen people died in the leaping fire on the desert not far from the river Euphrates, near Meyadine, in Syria. Arabs helped Stewardess Bray and 21 other survivors of the wreck of the Pan American World Airways Eclipse, a four-motored Constellation that had left Karachi, India, a few hours before, bound for La-Guardia Field, New York...