Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry /
Van der Linden, F. Robert.
Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / F. Robert van der Linden. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2002. - xv, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) 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.
0813122198 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001007229
Aeronautics, Commercial--United States.
Air mail service--United States.
HE9763 / .V36 2002
383/.144
Airlines and air mail : the post office and the birth of the commercial aviation industry / F. Robert van der Linden. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2002. - xv, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) 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.
0813122198 (cloth : alk. paper)
2001007229
Aeronautics, Commercial--United States.
Air mail service--United States.
HE9763 / .V36 2002
383/.144