Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / / F. Robert van der Linden

• Autore: Van der Linden F. Robert
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , [2002]; ©2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 383/.144
• Soggetto topico: Aeronautics, Commercial - United States; Air mail service - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a
• Titolo autorizzato: Airlines and air mail
• ISBN: 0-8131-3247-9; 0-8131-4938-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460302403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II