Fr. 74.50

Airlines & Air Mail

English · Hardback

Shipping usually within 3 to 5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)

Description

Read more










" 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 and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. 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.


About the author










F. Robert van der Linden, curator of air transportation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, is the author of The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner.


Summary

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.

Product details

Authors F Robert van der Linden, F. Robert van der Linden, F. Robert Van Der Linden
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 26.04.2002
 
EAN 9780813122199
ISBN 978-0-8131-2219-9
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 157 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
Weight 732 g
Subjects Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.