Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing the "A" signal where he should be getting an "N." Salt Lake City airmen suspected Trip 16's fate before she was found, at noon, smashed against Bountiful Peak at 6,500 feet, 15 miles northeast of the field. All hands were dead-the two pilots, the stewardess, seven passengers...
...making love in the forest of Compiegne during the signing of the armistice with Hitler, some of the season's funniest lines and most censorable situations are unreeled. Examples: Explaining to Colbert why she is just his type, Milland remarks that she reminds him of a stewardess on an airliner he used to pilot in the U. S. "We made a trip once," he explains, "and there weren't any passengers aboard. That's how I lost my commercial license." Before he leaves the prison camp, Milland tells the commanding officer about a rat in his cell...
...ship sank. . . .The darkness was terrifying. There was no disorder- only the moaning and crying of the wounded. We were in water up to our hips. It was terribly cold. . . .When dawn came we sighted twelve lifeboats. . . . In our boat there were only one child, two escorts, and stewardess and two sailors alive...
...rates, cried Grover Loening, "work out at so high a price that it costs just as much per pound to ship a pair of shoes as it does to ship your wife. But with this difference, the box of shoes does not need a stewardess, or heat, or soundproofing or comfortable chairs, cargo needs no electric lights, no toilets, no lunch, and no fancy advertising promotion, elaborate ticket office or copilot. . . . The most important thing is to get the rate down, and at once, and this cannot be done under the present setup...
...front of the wings. Pilot: Wilbur Wright. Duration: 3 min. Altitude reached: 97 ft.) Last week Expatriate Druce, sixtyish, two days after returning to the U. S., took her second flight as a guest of American Airlines in a modern transport plane over New York City. As a stewardess helped her into an armchair aboard the airliner, she called to the pilot: "Not too high and not too far, young...