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Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry

Title
Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / F. Robert van der Linden.
Author
Van der Linden, F. Robert.
Publication
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2002], ©2002.

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xv, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "Visionary entrepreneurs are often credited with creating America's commercial airline industry, and federal airline regulation is assumed to have played no significant role until President Roosevelt signed the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.".
  • "In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden boldly reinterprets the growth of the airline industry, persuasively arguing that it was the Progressive Republican policies of Herbert Hoover that actually put commercial aviation on the map in the United States.
  • Led by Hoover's postmaster general, Walter Fogle Brown, the government promoted the combination of strong private financial enterprises with substantial government guidance through economic incentives to develop commercial aviation in the public interest while avoiding the problems experienced earlier during the development of the railroads.
  • Through the use of air mail contracts, the federal government provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid economic foundation for this nascent, industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Airlines & air mail
Subject
  • Aeronautics, Commercial > United States
  • Air mail service > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.
Contents
1. Foundations -- 2. The Birth of an Industry -- 3. The Aviation Industry Comes of Age -- 4. Consolidation -- 5. 1929: The Calm before the Storm -- 6. The Post Office Takes Charge -- 7. The Watres Act -- 8. Realignment -- 9. Drawing a New Map -- 10. Reaction -- 11. Cord and Congress -- 12. The Democrats Take Control -- 13. Congress Assumes Command.
ISBN
0813122198 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001007229
OCLC
  • ocm48500964
  • SCSB-4271648
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries