Before
When she was young Cochran worked in textile mills to help her family, and in her early teens she was hired by a beauty shop to sweep the floors. A few years later she was cutting hair for a living. She soon became dissatisfied with working in a beauty shop and enrolled in a nursing program. Later, Cochran worked in a doctor’s office but never felt she was quite suited for the profession. Cochran returned to New York, and over the next four years learned to fly, earned her commercial pilot’s license and called on clients and suppliers by flying her own plane. In 1936, she married Odlum, the man that encouraged Cochran to begin flying. By 1935 she was participating in major competitions and running a multi-million-dollar beauty products business. |
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