Airways
Smith, Henry Ladd
Through the publication of new scholarship, out-of-print classics, documents reports, and other materials, this series is intended to contribute to the overall understanding of aviation history - its science and technology as well as the social, cultural, and political environment in which it developed and matured.
Airways, issued for the first time in paperback, is included in the Classics of Aviation History subseries.
First published in 1942, Airways chronicles the development of air lines in the United States from the dawn of powered flight and the coming of air mail up to the state of the industry on the eve of World War II. Henry Ladd Smith paints telling portraits of air line pioneers, from the familiar Juan Terry Trippe, founder of Pan American Airways, to President Hoover's postmaster general Walter Folger Brown, who presided over the 1930 "spoils Conferences" where airmail contracts were diwied up. Smith weaves these portraits into the fabric of the larger story of the conflicts and intrigues, the labors and maneuvers, that went into building commercial aviation in this country.
Henry Ladd Smith, now retired, was for many years a lecturer in journalism at the University of Wisconsin.
Softcover
445 Seiten / pages
good condition
Washington D.C. - 1991 - Smithsonian Institution Press
Art.Nr. 16217
