FDR and civil aviation ; Flying strong, flying free
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Alan P. Dobson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Basingstoke
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
292 pages.
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave Connect eBook Collection.;World of the Roosevelts.
GENERAL NOTES
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Electronic book text.; Epublication based on: 9780230106666, 2011.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Two Challenges -- Roosevelt and Civil Aviation * Chapter 2: Roosevelt's Inheritance * An Uneasy Start: Civil Aviation 1933-1937 * The Passage of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act * The Challenges of International Aviation 1933-1939 * The Coming of War: Policies, Preparations and More Reorganization 1939-1941 * Forming US International Aviation Policy December 1941 -- May 1943 * Of Subordinates and the President * American Triumph, Roosevelt's Loss and the
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The aim of this study is to demonstrate that Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the leading agents in both setting out and working to implement the principles that came to govern the international aviation system from 1945 down to the recent present and that much of its design was drawn from the experience of domestic US aviation reform in the 1930s. In contemporary parlance one might say that what is proposed here isThe aim of this study is to demonstrate that Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the leading agents in both setting out and working to implement the principles that came to govern the international aviation system from 1945 down to the recent present and that much of its design was drawn from the experience of domestic US aviation reform in the 1930s. In contemporary parlance one might say that what is proposed here isThe aim of this study is to demonstrate that Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the leading agents in both setting out and working to implement the principles that came to govern the international aviation system from 1945 down to the recent present and that much of its design was drawn from the experience of domestic US aviation reform in the 1930s. In contemporary parlance one might say that what is proposed here is",,,,,"Burlesque" of Chicago * Roosevelt's Legacy.