Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dallas, a woman boarding a Pioneer Air Lines DC-3 with her baby was surprised to have the stewardess present the baby with a new pair of shoes. She need not have been surprised: it was just another Pioneer sales promotion stunt. "We'll do anything for a customer," says Pioneer's Founder and Chairman William F. Long. "We'll get him a hotel room, rent him a car, lend him a horse, tend the baby, or run errands...
...Stewardess Mary Frances Housley threw open the door. Men & women rushed for it. One woman jumped with her coat on fire, tore it off and ran from the scene. Pretty, 24-year-old "Frankie" Housley stood by the door, coolly advising her passengers to "take your time." One panic-stricken woman crawled along the aisle away from the door and toward the nose of the plane. Another woman screamed: "Get my baby." Frankie could have jumped. Instead, she turned back into the flaming cabin...
Back to the City. Last week the victims were flown to Caracas, where funeral services were held in the suburban Gran Colombia school. Thousands watched as 31 black or white hearses (black for men and older boys, white for the plane's stewardess and the younger boys) moved slowly out of the school grounds toward the cemeteries. In the bright sunlight at the Southern General cemetery, not far from the flower-heaped grave of Venezuela's murdered President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, twelve coffins were lowered into one large grave, others into family plots. Then, as the parents turned...
...insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through. In New York, a 32-year-old private secretary identified Grant as the father of her three-year-old baby, and said that Grant was $1,000 in arrears...
...jail, Jack Grant moodily faced reporters and photographers. Stewardess Soumela, he said, was a nice girl but he was just "stringing her along" because she helped him forget his financial troubles and let him use her car. Moreover he didn't really dislike his wife and children. Blowing up the plane with 16 people aboard, he said, just seemed like the most sensible way to get out of debt...