purser
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In 1970, Ms. Laffey Inman, a union leader and Northwest’s first female purser — the lead attendant on a flight — spearheaded a class-action suit, Laffey v.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
I raised it with the purser - the man was moved and spoken to, apparently.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2017
Megan Allison, the ship’s purser, is filling in as cook the first night.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2016
I’d look up from time to time, studying my fellow passengers and the crew: the captain in the wheelhouse, the purser counting the take.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014
After a time he was promoted to a stewardship and later became the purser of a rather important vessel.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
“Those include the fish processing workers, U.S. Coast Guard licensed personnel, refrigeration specialists, marine electricians, fish crews, pursers, cooks and others.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
The Dubai-based company’s pursers are issued with Thinkpad laptops from Lenovo Group Ltd., the second-biggest maker of personal computers, that convert into tablets operated with a stylus.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 16, 2012
A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon all vessels of the 35,000,000-ton merchant fleet will have medical pursers aboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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