Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board

Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board
Author: United States. Shipping Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1126
Release: 1917
Genre: Merchant marine
ISBN:

Includes the annual report of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (called 1927-1933, United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation).

The Development Of Large Technical Systems

The Development Of Large Technical Systems
Author: Renate Mayntz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000315878

This book is an outcome of the conference on the development of large technical systems held in Berlin in 1986. It focuses on the comparative analysis of the development of large technical systems, particularly electrical power, railroad, air traffic, telephone, and other forms of telecommunication.

Hoosiers and the American Story

Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0871953633

A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

River of History

River of History
Author: John O. Anfinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003
Genre: Formations (Geology)
ISBN:

Airlines and Air Mail

Airlines and Air Mail
Author: F. Robert van der Linden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 081314938X

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.