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... 14 TODAY MAY 21 In 1932 American Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic when she landed in Wales Four years earlier she had been the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger In 1937 she set out to fly round the world ...
... Trousers seem traditionally to have been preferred by women flyers As witness our pictures of air pioneers Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart Marvstvle Amy Johnson from Hull achieved the first solo flight to Australia by a woman back in 1930 She’s seen here in ...
... at the time of her disappearance was one of the best-known women in the world a heroine to the millions of her fans - Amelia Earhart The daughter of a Kansas lawyer Amelia came to public attention in 1928 when she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic ...
... yourself” These are just four of the women selected for inclusion with others such as Sue Ryder Beatrix Potter Virginia Woolf Amelia Earhart Clare Francis Marie Curie and Mother Teresa Inevitably the book is also a social comment on the gradual emergence of women ...
... 1566 Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister London 1850 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree British theatrical actor-manager London 1917 Amelia Earhart pioneer aviator disappeared whilst flying 1937 Ernest Hemingway novelist and journalist For Whom the Bell Tolls suicide ...
... said ‘I prefer my feet on what I call “terror firmer” and the firmer it is the less terror for me!’ AND today in 1932 Amelia Earhart ended the first woman’s transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales She made as many headlines as when seven years ...
... NO Model: TRACY DOWNS DAILY POST WAISTCOAT POLY COTTON FOR EACH ITEM ORDERED No of items TEL NO VALUE £ AMY JOHNSON and Amelia Earhart pioneered flying for women 50 years ago Now fashion-addicts who have never been near a cockpit in their lives are walking ...
... before the start of a big fight “I pray everything will come off all right” said Jack The striptease queen smiled: “Me too” AMELIA EARHART and her co-pilot vanished over the Pacific on this day in 1937 They were on a round-the-world flight And the famous French ...
... officers Joe Klaas and Joseph Gervais After a 10-year investigation into the disappearance they claimed that not only was Amelia Earhart alive ct that time but she living in the U S They identified her as a woman calling herself Mrs Guy Bolam According to ...
... Germany 1864 Lord Dunsany short-story writer London 1878 Ernst Bloch American composer Sacred Service Switzerland 1880 Amelia Earhart pioneer aviator Kansas 1898 DIED Sacha Guitry actor playwright and film director The Story of a Cheat France 1957 ‘I feel ...
... the impeccable behaviour of the fans demonstrating to others an enviable strength of character TODAY In 1932 American Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic when she landed in Wales Four years earlier she had been the first ...
... such SATURDAY Flight for Freedom (BBC-2 435) Highflying Rosalind Russell plays Tonie Carter loosely based on aviatrix Amelia Earhart who sacrifices all for the Stars and Stripes in this stuttering wartime attempt to explain the heroine’s mystery disappearance ...