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Other airlines followed suit, hiring nurses to serve as flight attendants, then called " stewardesses " or " air hostesses ", on most of their flights.
In the United States, the job was one of only a few in the 1930s to permit women, which, coupled with The Great Depression, led to large numbers of applicants for the few positions available.
Two thousand women applied for just 43 positions offered by Transcontinental and Western Airlines in December 1935.
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