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getting stronger and stronger, to have all they had worked twoard [[toward]] stymied by not being allowed to fly in World War I.

But the aviation world was stuck with women pilots, and what it would do about them, whether it would use their skills or try to ignore them, remained to be seen. The women who flew after World War I had their problems and obstacles, too. But they could look back on their predecessors' struggles and take heart that acceptance of their flying abilities was possible. These second-generation U.S. women pilots started from the base built by those before them. People had become a bit more reconciled to the idea of women flying airplanes. 

But for those very early women, there was literally nowhere to go but up: