02964nam 2200685 450 991046030240332120200520144314.00-8131-3247-90-8131-4938-X(CKB)3710000000333810(EBL)1914922(SSID)ssj0001401352(PQKBManifestationID)12568297(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401352(PQKBWorkID)11351260(PQKB)10391848(SSID)ssj0001401336(PQKBManifestationID)11755503(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001401336(PQKBWorkID)11364414(PQKB)10918453(MiAaPQ)EBC1914922(OCoLC)ocn900344108(OCoLC)606810129(MdBmJHUP)muse43700(Au-PeEL)EBL1914922(CaPaEBR)ebr11011599(CaONFJC)MIL690660(OCoLC)903974758(EXLCZ)99371000000033381020011116h20022002 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAirlines and air mail the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry /F. Robert van der LindenLexington, Kentucky :University Press of Kentucky,[2002]©20021 online resource (366 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59378-7 0-8131-2219-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Foundations -- The birth of an industry -- The aviation industry comes of age -- Consolidation -- 1929 : calm before the storm -- The post office takes charge -- The Watres Act -- Realignment -- Drawing a new map -- Reaction -- Cord and Congress -- The Democrats take control -- Congress assumes command.Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot aAeronautics, CommercialUnited StatesAir mail serviceUnited StatesElectronic books.Aeronautics, CommercialAir mail service383/.144Van der Linden F. Robert1052592MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460302403321Airlines and air mail2483991UNINA