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Airlines and Air Mail: The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry

by F. Robert Van Der Linden

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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.<P>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 financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies.<P>Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780813122199
Subtitle:
The Post Office and the Birth of the Commercial Aviation Industry
Author:
Van Der Linden, F. Robert
Publisher:
University Press of Kentucky
Location:
Lexington, Ky.
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Aviation - History
Subject:
Aeronautics, commercial
Subject:
Aviation - Commercial
Subject:
United States - 20th Century (1900-1945)
Subject:
Air mail service.
Subject:
Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States.
Subject:
Air mail service -- United States.
Series Volume:
1625-C
Publication Date:
April 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
9.26x6.40x1.01 in. 1.38 lbs.
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