Editing Amelia Earhart (section)

=== Promoting aviation ===

[[File:Aa earhart subj e.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Studio portrait of Amelia Earhart, {{circa|1932}}. Putnam instructed Earhart to disguise a "gap-toothed" smile by keeping her mouth closed in formal photographs.]]

Earhart accepted a position as associate editor at [[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|''Cosmopolitan'']] and used it to campaign for greater public acceptance of aviation, especially focusing on the role of women entering the field.{{sfn|Glines|1997|p=45}} In 1929, [[Transcontinental Air Transport]] (TAT) appointed Earhart and [[Margaret Bartlett Thornton]] to promote air travel, particularly for women,<ref>{{cite news |title=TAT Plane Talk |url=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/api/collection/twa/id/8058/download |access-date=24 March 2022 |volume=1|issue=9 |date=Sep 1929 |archive-date=January 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112001658/https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/api/collection/twa/id/8058/download |url-status=live }}</ref> and Earhart helped set up the [[Ludington Airline]], the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, D.C. Earhart was appointed Vice President of National Airways, which operated [[Boston-Maine Airways]] and several other airlines in the northeastern US, and by 1940 had become [[Northeast Airlines]].<ref>''Boston and Maine Railroad Employees Magazine'', Volume 8, Number 10, July 1933, copy in Purdue University Special Collections.</ref> In 1934, Earhart interceded on behalf of [[Isabel Ebel]], who had helped Earhart in 1932, to be accepted as the first woman student of aeronautical engineering at [[New York University]] (NYU).<ref>{{Cite web |title=MIT AeroAstro News June 2012 |url=http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/news/enews/june12/index.html |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=web.mit.edu |archive-date=January 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240112001702/http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/news/enews/june12/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>