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Jacqueline Cochran in 1936. She grew up in poverty, was trained as a nurse, and then became one of the country's more skilled and daring women flyers. In July 1936 she married financier Floyd G. Odlum, head of the $100,000,000 Atlas Corporation. The couple met in 1932, and he funded her flying training as part of her cosmetics business. His first wife, Hortense M. Odlum, divorced him in October 1935. - (CSU_2015_5_33) (KEYSTONE/Everett Collection/)