LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Amy Johnson: Woman
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If you believed recent newspaper reports, Amy Johnson's plane is imminently about to be recovered from the seabed in the Thames Estuary, and, presumably, the 60-year-old mystery of what happened to the pioneering woman pilot will be solved. Unfortunately real life is not quite so simple.
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Unusually for a young woman of the time, Amy Johnson attended the University of Sheffield and graduated with BA in Economics. She found that employment for a woman in any responsible or fulfilling post was almost impossible to attain, so lowered her sights and worked at several jobs she found demeaning, including secretary for Peter Jones department store in London. After this she took a position as secretary for William Charles Crocker, a London firm of solicitors.
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Amy did arrive in Australia at 3:30 in the afternoon. When she landed, the young woman from Hull received the acclaim she so desperately craved for. The local and international press hailed the young and remarkable, inexperienced flyer from England. The Prime Minister of Britain, Ramsey MacDonald, prominent dignitaries, even the King and Queen of England called on young Amy to congratulate her. Amy Johnson was at the top of the world. Becoming the first woman to attempt and complete such a dangerous journey propelled Johnson to celebrity status.
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Amy is extremely active in the community. She serves on the boards of directors of the American Cancer Society, Red Cedar Chamber Music, the United Way of East Central Iowa and the SPT Theatre Company Board. In 2004, Amy served as the volunteer chair of the six county United Way of East Central Iowa campaign – becoming only the third woman in that organization’s history to lead the local effort.
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In 1942 a film of Johnson's life, They Flew Alone, was made by director-producer Herbert Wilcox, starring his wife Anna Neagle as Johnson, and Robert Newton as Mollison. The movie is known in the US as Wings and the Woman.
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