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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aVan der Linden, F. Robert.
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245 1 0 _aAirlines and air mail :
_bthe post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry /
_cF. Robert van der Linden.
260 _aLexington :
_bThe University Press of Kentucky,
_c(c)2002.
300 _a1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) :
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336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aFoundations --
_tThe birth of an industry --
_tThe aviation industry comes of age --
_tConsolidation --
_t1929 : calm before the storm --
_tThe post office takes charge --
_tThe Watres Act --
_tRealignment --
_tDrawing a new map --
_tReaction --
_tCord and Congress --
_tThe Democrats take control --
_tCongress assumes command.
520 0 _aConventional 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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650 0 _aAeronautics, Commercial
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAir mail service
_zUnited States.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=937969&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell