Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / F. Robert van der Linden.
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- 9780813149387
- 081314938X
- Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States
- Air mail service -- United States
- Transports aériens -- États-Unis
- Poste aérienne -- États-Unis
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies
- TRANSPORTATION -- Aviation -- Commercial
- Aeronautics, Commercial
- Air mail service
- United States
- Luftfahrt
- Geschichte
- Luftpost
- Commerciële dienstverlening
- Luchtvaart
- Luchtpost
- 383.144 21
- HE9763 .V36 2002eb
- 05.41
- 55.51
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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 a.
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