| Author | Smith, Henry Ladd, 1906-
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| Title | Airways : the history of commercial aviation in the United States / by Henry Ladd Smith.
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| Edition | First edition. |
| Published | New York : Knopf, 1942.
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| Description | 3 preliminary leaves, [iii]-xiv, 430, xv pages, 1 leaf : illustrations, maps, XXXII plates (including portraits), tables (1 folded), diagrams ; 23 cm
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-430) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Kitty Hawk -- The day of the birdman -- The swivel-chair colonels -- The mail files through -- The night raiders -- "Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night ..." -- The mail must pay -- Law and order in the airways -- The seeds of empire -- The wings grow stronger -- The urge to merge -- E pluribus American -- Top Sergeant Brown -- The shotgun wedding of TAT and WAE -- Mr. Gadfly Halliburton -- The reach exceeds the grasp -- The Black committee -- Washington Opera Bouffe -- The "spoils conferences" -- Death and the army take over -- Who is the villain? -- Invitation to a crap game -- Head winds and ceiling zero -- Back to "normalcy" -- The age of the skyliner -- They made the sky ships -- Safety pays dividends -- Peace and war -- Appendixes. The first air-mail law (Kelly Act) and amendments -- The McNary-Watres Act -- Determination of passenger subsidy element in air-mail payments for fiscal years 1931-3 -- Air-mail route mileage and extensions -- Air lines in the United States -- Chronology.
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| Subjects | Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States.
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| LC Card Number | 42-36042 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: TL 521 S642 1942
CA-1903011: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 68897] |
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