Word: stewardesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, back in the plane, everyone has forgotten about the pretty stewardess from Panama who was doing a good job until she fell out of the plane during the storm. And there is the skeptical Las Vegas hood who, unlike the audience, knows for certain there is no chance of getting out of the jungle...
They waited in silence. Three passengers dozed. A stewardess jokingly offered to pass out the magazines. A passenger wanted to know when breakfast would be served. Everybody laughed...
...ground, the airlines already employ about 5,000 Negroes, roughly 4% of their working force, as fuelers, cleaners, mechanics, ticket sellers, secretaries. But in the air, no scheduled U.S. passenger line employs a Negro pilot, stewardess, navigator, flight engineer or radio operator. Since 1945, New York's antidiscrimination commission has investigated 16 complaints filed by disappointed Negro applicants against seven airlines, found some discrimination in half the cases...
Married. Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 39, outfielder for the Kansas City Athletics, longtime (1938-53) heavy-hitting star of the St. Louis Cardinals; and Helen Spiker, 25, TWA stewardess; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Cumberland...
Airline passengers who like to take a drink aloft may soon have their spirits dashed. Pilot, steward and stewardess unions have all passed stern anti-liquor resolutions. And Massachusetts Congressman Thomas J. Lane, arguing that tipsy passengers sometimes constitute a safety threat, plans to introduce a bill at the next session of Congress to make inflight liquor service a federal offense. Last week Harold L. Pearson, president of the industry's Air Transport Association, said he had been warned by the Civil Aeronautics Board that liquor-pouring airlines may have to take "corrective steps," sent airline presidents a proposed...