World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female, Air pilots--United States--Biography, and Women air pilots--United States--Biography
Abstract
A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator. This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, business-woman--who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first began to believe they could live full lives and demanded to do so. World War II offered women the opportunity to contribute to the work of the country, and Nancy Batson Crews was one woman who made the most of her privileged beginnings and youthful talents and opportunities. In love with flying from the time she first saw Charles Lindbergh in Birmingham, (October 1927), Crews began her aviation career in 1939 as one of only five young women chosen for Civilian Pilot Training at the University of Alabama. Later, Crews became the 20th woman of 28 to qualify as an'Original'Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) pilot, employed during World War II shuttling P-38, P-47, and P-51 high-performance aircrafts from factory to staging areas and to and from maintenance and training sites. Before the war was over, 1,102 American women would qualify to fly Army airplanes. Many of these female pilots were forced out of aviation after the war as males returning from combat theater assignments took over their roles. But Crews continued to fly, from gliders to turbojets to J-3 Cubs, in a postwar career that began in California and then resumed in Alabama. The author was a freelance journalist looking to write about the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) when she met an elderly, but still vital, Nancy Batson Crews. The former aviatrix held a reunion of the surviving nine WAFS for an interview with them and Crews, recording hours of her own testimony and remembrance before Crews's death from cancer in 2001. After helping lead the fight in the'70s for WASP to win veteran status, it was fitting that Nancy Batson Crews was buried with full military honors.
Buehrer, David, Royot, Daniel, Buehrer, David, and Royot, Daniel
Subjects
Realism in literature, American fiction--History and criticism, Social classes in literature, and Humanism in literature
Abstract
A new look at presenting the psycho-social complexes that drive the fictional characters'sense of selfhood in the works of Banks, Johnson and Crews. These contemporary American writers seek to restore a humanistic viewpoint to such figures in an age of “post-human” devolution of identity.
Myroslav OLISKEVYCH, Stepan KOVALYSHYN, Myron MAGATS, Viktor SHEVCHUK, and Oleh SUKACH
Transport Problems, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 157-170 (2020)
Subjects
scheduling, crews of vehicles, trucks fleet, disjunctive graph, Transportation engineering, and TA1001-1280
Abstract
The importance of compliance with the schedule of work of road trains on the highway transport network of the European Union is shown. The possible options for work and rest modes for truck drivers on international routeshave been analyzed. A model for optimizing the truck fleet operation plan has been developed. This model hastwolevels, that is, the general graph contains subgraphs designed withincompatible verticesto determine the active and shortest schedule. Each of thesubgraphs reflects alternative routesand schedulesof a truck. The model also includesrestrictions on the total cycle time and active period duration of available unloading points. To find the shortest schedule,integer programming with a guaranteed optimal solution was applied. Testing of the proposed algorithm was performed fortheexample of serving orders for international freight transportation between the cities of Ukraine, Poland, and the Czech Republic.The active schedule is based on the criterion of the minimum of the total duration of drivers’work. The results obtained are valid, consistent with the rules of the European Agreement. They indicate that the choice of the best schedule for a single car on a unitary route is not the best solution for theentire truck fleet and the entire flow of orders.
The sexual assault of Terry Crews by Adam Venit raises all sorts of questions about the nature of sexual violence and our reluctance to see Black men as victims of sexual assault in the United States. Despite a history of Black men and boys being raped by White men and women, there is no effort to connect the centuries-long record of sexual violence against Black males to the sexual victimization of Black men and boys currently. This article analyzes the language, history, and stereotypes deployed in our understanding of Terry Crews's victimization, even those he uses to describe himself, to better situate and describe the vulnerability of Black men and boys to sexual violence in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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