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    TAKING FLIGHT

    Feb 16, 2021 2 minutes
    Nan Siegel

    By Raquel Ramsey and Tricia Aurand, University Press of Kansas, 2020, $29.95.

    Nadine Ramsey dropped out of high school to work as a secretary, helping support her family in the aftermath of her father’s suicide. But the blossoming aviation industry of 1930s Wichita, Kan., soon inspired the energetic redhead to a new, and at

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