Title Taking flight : the foundations of American commercial aviation, 1918-1938 / M. Houston Johnson V

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) Series Centennial of flight ; number twenty-one Centennial of flight series ; no. 21. Contents The coming air age: Herbert Hoover and the origins of Federal Aviation Policy, 1921-1925 -- Regulating the skies: the Air Commerce Act of 1926 -- "A sound basis" for air transport: Walter F. Brown and commercial aviation, 1927-1932 -- "Chicanery, manipulation, and fraud": Senator Hugo Black's Air Mail Investigation, 1933-1934 -- Enacting a new deal for aviation: Franklin D. Roosevelt and US Aviation Policy -- Laying foundations: New Deal Public Works and aviation infrastructure -- Conclusion: to the Jet Age and Beyond Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 18, 2019) Subject Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States -- History -- 20th century Aeronautics and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century Aeronautics, Commercial -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial. Aeronautics and state Aeronautics, Commercial Aeronautics, Commercial -- Government policy United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018043501 ISBN 9781623497224 1623497221

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