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Come fly the world the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am

A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"-- Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on Pan Am between 1966 and 19...

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Main Author: Cooke, Julia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Subjects:
Pan American World Airways, Inc. > History.
Pan American World Airways, Inc. > Employees > Biography.
Flight attendants > United States > History > 20th century.
Flight attendants > United States > Biography.
Sex role in the work environment > United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • A jet-age job
  • Horizons unlimited
  • A woman in uniform
  • Pipeline to paradise
  • Foreign service
  • Pan Am was the American flag
  • Unequivocally in the world
  • One, two, three, what are we fighting for?
  • What do you women want?
  • I'm okay, you're okay
  • Open skies for Negro girls
  • She's so busy being free
  • Splendid capitalist airplanes
  • De facto feminist
  • A matter of serious and continuing concern
  • An extension of the airline
  • Everything flyable
  • War comes aboard
  • The most incredible scene
  • The only lonely place was on the moon.

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