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56. Many of Ruth Law's most spectacular performances were at night, when she looped with flares attached to her aircraft. (Photo: SI#77-706) 57. During her flying career Ruth Law performed at air meets throughout the country. (Photo: Courtesy Rare Birds Photos) 58. Ruth Law was the first woman in the U.S. authorized to wear a non-commissioned officer's uniform. Here she poses at the Hotel McAlpin in New York, June 30, 1917, during a recruiting drive for the Army and the Navy. (Photo: SI#77-708) 59. By 1917 Ruth Law was so well known that she earned as much as $9000 a week for exhibition flights, but during World War I she devoted most of her time to recruiting and to Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives. (Photo: SI#A5532)