Women in aviation and nurse, who was unable to secure work flying proposed to airline executives that women be allowed to act as hostesses on planes. She was hired on a three-month trial basis by Boeing Air Transport and selected the first seven flight attendants for airlines, requiring them to be under 115 pounds, nurses and unmarried. Women continued to break records. In 1930, Amy Johnson an English aviator, made the first England to Australia flight by a woman. Antonie Strassmann, a German emigre to the US, became the first woman to successfully cross the Atlantic aboard an aircraft, traveling in May 1932
Nothing to Make a Fuss About Nothing to Make a Fuss About Nothing to Make a Fuss About () is a 1953 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. The narrative is set in Paris right after World War I. It tells the story of a female ex-ambulance driver with a passion for the arts, who falls in love with a disillusioned Austrian painter, while she in turn is adored by a young woman. The novel was published in English in 1954, as part of an omnibus volume titled "Children of Circumstance". The novel was the basis for the 1961 film "Time Out for Love". The