...Ryan Patrick Murphy “United Airlines is for Lovers” turns to the U.S. airline industry to analyze the relationship between gay rights activism and workplace austerity measures in the 1990s. In February of 1997, United Airlines sued the City of San Francisco in an effort to exempt itself from...

... that included civilian and military personnel on the ground and passengers on American Airlines Flight 77. Their collective grave, marked by a four-and-a-half-foot granite monument, sits within eyesight of the building where they died. The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, folded at the time of its dedication...

... about the functionality and mechanisms of historization. On September 11, 2001, one of the hijacked planes — United Airlines 93 — did not reach its intended target because its thirty-­seven passengers and seven crew members mounted an assault against the terrorists. As a result, the plane...

... capabilities and the rapid growth in civilian air travel, the SST was thought to be part of the natural order of technological progress. Second, the manufacture of supersonic aircraft, it was said, would create jobs. Third, proponents claimed the sale of these planes to foreign airlines would improve...

... Joseph Levy had been a firefighter, and Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was the captain of the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon. Sumner and Burlingame both write frequently for the conservative and mainstream press, and Burlingame, a former producer for Court TV...

... meteorites — images of their collapse suggesting the transi- tory nature of wealth and power. Minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 collided with the North Tower of the World Trade Center, television news began to offer astounding images that “looked like a movie” to many viewers. Since Americans...

... buildings in the world — symbolic and actual centers of U.S. financial power — and directly hit the Pentagon, the cen- ter of U.S. military power. Thousands were killed or grievously wounded. And in the midst of the massive destruction, there was real heroism — from the passengers of United Airlines...

... the Committee’s recommen- dations would have been had the agencies been found to know what they were doing. NOT JUST ANY VISA With everyone from airlines to college alumni associations to activist groups offering their own distinctive credit cards, it was only a matter of time before the past itself...

... in the recent case of a Japanese collector who paid Christie’s almost $28,000 (three times the expected price) for a kimono made specially for the Beatles by Japanese Airlines, and worn by John Lemon when he visited Japan in 1966. But even more interesting, at least to us, was the other item up for bid...

... access to a wide range of unrelated activities such as writing a check, buying a drink, or boarding a plane. Retailers, government agencies, commercial airline companies, and others who depend on the driver’s license for personal identification look to AIDC technol- ogies — like the magnetic...

... of airline pilots, it turned out, revolved around COM- plaints about air traffic controllers, most of whom had recently lost their jobs.) And this year brought us Japan, Tennessee, and that almost extinct folk group -trial lawyers. Hard to tell whether these triads are signs of a creeping...

...-speaking black airline attendants to France and beyond suggest a still wider world. Hmm, a “French connection” . . . maybe I need to add to my list a book Mamdani refers to: the revised edition of Alfred W. McCoy’s The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity...

... blonde clerk).8 His description of this greeting as a “system- atized friendly touch” indicates a kind of arch knowingness that comes from a shared laboring experience; he and the airline clerk are both in the business of com- modified emotions. The fact that Bingham regards such clearly calculated...

....” Likewise, Ryan Murphy examines the similar linking of “family values” politics with neoliberal austerity measures through his examination of the late-­1990s labor/LGBT battle against United Airlines as the employer sought to legally under- mine a San Francisco law which mandated that employers cover...

... the large Latino communities in New York City and Washington, D.C., and we sent project staff to Shanksville, the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, to solicit testimony from that community. We also worked closely with the Middle East and Middle East American Center at the CUNY Graduate...

...) to the Northwest Airlines mechanics and cleaners’ strike in 2005–06 (AMFA 33), work- ers in the Twin Cities found ample opportunities to test social movement unionism tactics in repeated struggles for rights in the workplace in the first years of the new millennium. In the fifteen years since Moody’s...

.... Thompson . Detroit Free Press . 1950 . “A New Migrant Problem.” June 8 . ———. 1950 . “Puerto Ricans Excel as Help in Beet Fields: Planes Fly In Eager, Law-Abiding Workers.” June 19 . ———. 1950 . “Airlines' Sugar Beet Shuttle Hauls 5,000 Without a Spill.” June 20 . ———. 1950...

... a court ruling under the Civil Rights Act against airlines enforcing their retirement at ages between thirty-two and thirty-five. The airlines had rigid, stringent rules about women’s appearance at work, and by these advanced ages they were judged unable to meet those standards. The same must have been...

... resolution at the United Nations. Antonio Cassesse devoted an entire book to the complex legal implications of this entire affair, including the United States interception of an Egyptian airliner “in a way that was totally unjustified under international law...

... the Korean government to start a commercial airline in 1960. Cho saw the event as making good on his childhood fascination with airplanes. Airgram from Seoul to State, “Biweekly Economic Review no. 4,” February 24, 1962, 6, Central Decimal Files 60–63, box 2903, RG 59, NACP. 63. For a discussion...