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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Van der Linden, F. Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2002.
Subjects:
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.
Luftfahrt
Geschichte
Luftpost
Commerciële dienstverlening.
Luchtvaart.
Luchtpost.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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