Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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After 15 May 1930: The world's first airline stewardesses (all...
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After 15 May 1930
The world's first airline stewardesses (all eight of them nurses) worked for the American firm Boeing Air Transport
(later United Airlines
) for three years before other airlines adopted the idea.
Hudson, Kenneth. Air Travel: A Social History. Adams and Dart, 1972.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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15 May 1930: Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess,...
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15 May 1930
Ellen Church
became the first airline stewardess, as a nurse on a Boeing Air Transport
flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
