With respect to arrangement of terms and their meanings, it should be kept in mind that the point of view of the book, or the point of reference for the user, is an acronym rather than its meaning. Therefore, it is deliberate when there are two successive listings of, for example, the International Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association under slightly different initialisms, both of which were encountered in one or another of the various sources used to compile this dictionary.








