7 Chapter 6 Amelia the Businesswoman

Chapter 6 Amelia the Businesswoman In the fall of 1929, the stock market crashed. Many people lost a lot of money. Many also lost their jobs. It was the start of the Great Depression. Amelia worried about her parents who had split up again. Her mother was living with Amelia's sister and husband. Amelia helped out by giving her mother some money every month. Her father was ill. So Amelia bought the log cabin in Los Angeles where he was living. Amelia felt a strong sense of duty to her parents.

第6章女商人阿米莉亚1929年秋天，股市崩盘。 很多人损失了很多钱。 许多人也失去了工作。 这是大萧条的开始。 阿米莉亚担心她的父母又分开了。 她母亲和阿米莉亚的姐姐和丈夫住在一起。 阿米莉亚每个月给她母亲一些钱来帮助她。 她父亲病了。于是阿米莉亚买下了他在洛杉矶住的小木屋。 阿米莉亚对父母有一种强烈的责任感。

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

大萧条

It started on October 29, 1929. That was the day a lot of people lost a lot of money on the stock market. Since they had less money, people couldn't buy things. Businesses had to close. Millions of people lost their jobs. Soup kitchens were set up to feed people. The hungry waited for hours in long lines hoping to get a little free food. The Great Depression dragged on for years. Mother Nature made things even worse. There was very little rain in the Great Plains during the 1930s. Farmland turned to dust. More families became homeless. Under President Franklin Roosevelt, the government formed a plan to make things better. It was called the New Deal. Jobs were created. People began to make money again. By the end of the decade,

它始于1929年10月29日。 那天很多人在股票市场上损失了很多钱。 由于钱少了，人们买不起东西。 企业不得不关门。数百万人失去了工作。 设立了施粥所来给人们提供食物。 饥饿的人们排了几个小时的长队，希望能得到一点免费的食物。 大萧条持续了数年。 大自然母亲让事情变得更糟。 在20世纪30年代，大平原地区很少下雨。 农田化为尘土。更多的家庭无家可归。 在富兰克林·罗斯福总统的领导下，政府制定了一项改善情况的计划。 这就是所谓的新政。 创造了就业机会。人们又开始赚钱了。 到本世纪末，

the worst was over. But people who lived through the Great Depression would never forget the hard times. Amelia had to keep earning money but that was not easy during the Depression. She still gave speeches but she had another job, too. Amelia helped start an airline on the East Coast. It was called The New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airway because it flew between those cities. Amelia's job was to convince people to fly on the airline. It was difficult to run an airline in the early days. Only a few cities had airports. Once three planes arrived in Philadelphia at the same time. Some passengers had to change planes. Some people just got off to stretch their legs. But airline

最糟糕的时候过去了。但经历过大萧条的人永远不会忘记那段艰难的时光。 阿米莉亚不得不继续挣钱，但在大萧条时期，这并不容易。 她仍然发表演讲，但她也有了另一份工作。 阿米莉亚帮助在东海岸开了一家航空公司。 它被称为纽约、费城和华盛顿航空公司，因为它在这些城市之间飞行。 阿米莉亚的工作是说服人们乘坐这家航空公司的飞机。 在早期经营航空公司是很困难的。 只有少数几个城市有机场。 有一次，三架飞机同时抵达费城。 一些乘客不得不改签飞机。 有些人只是下车伸伸腿。 但是航空公司

workers got confused. They put people on the wrong planes. Some were accidentally flown back to the city they had just left! Another problem on the early flights was airsickness. It wasn't just the bumps. Fumes from the engine often came into the cabin. There also was no air conditioning. Sometimes more than half of the passengers on a plane threw up. Still, more than fifteen hundred passengers flew on the tiny airline during the first ten days. Amelia was happy to report that almost half the tickets had been sold to women.

工人们感到困惑。他们把人送上了错误的飞机。 有些人意外地飞回了他们刚刚离开的城市!早班航班的另一个问题是晕机。 不仅仅是颠簸。发动机的烟雾经常进入机舱。 也没有空调。 有时飞机上超过一半的乘客会呕吐。 尽管如此，在最初的十天里，还是有1500多名乘客乘坐了这家小型航空公司的航班。 阿米莉亚高兴地报告说，几乎一半的票卖给了女性。

AVIATION INDUSTRY Today traveling by plane seems as normal as taking a bus. But it wasn't always that way. In fact, your grandparents may not have stepped foot on an airplane until they were grown-ups! At first airplanes primarily delivered mail, not people. But the many small companies that carried

今天，乘飞机旅行似乎和乘公共汽车一样平常。 但事情并不总是这样。 事实上，你的祖父母可能直到成年才踏上飞机!起初，飞机主要运送邮件，而不是人。 但是，许多小公司