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Author Cooke, Julia, author.

Title Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am / Julia Cooke.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  387.742 Coo    New Books Pittsburg 2ndFL  Available
Description vii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note 1 5 6 7 10 14 15
Subject Pan American World Airways, Inc -- History.
Pan American World Airways, Inc -- Employees -- Biography.
Pan American World Airways, Inc. (OCoLC)fst00553384
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Subject Flight attendants -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Flight attendants -- Biography.
Sex role in the work environment.
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
Flight attendants. (OCoLC)fst00927306
Sex role in the work environment. (OCoLC)fst01114655
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9780358251408 28.00
0358251400 28.00

 
    
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