Title: The sky's the limit, the history of the airlines.
Authors: Kelly, Charles J.
Publisher: Coward-McCann
Year: 1963
Subjects: Airlines United States; Aeronautics, Commercial History
Contents: The bold beginnings -- First flights and patent fights -- The wing as a weapon -- Nor dark of night: the U.S. Air Mail -- The flight of the lone eagle -- Consolidation and the growth of government control -- Boeing and the birth of United -- From barnstormers to bankers -- Wall Street and Washington -- The new deal -- Reconciliation, regulation and subsidy -- Across the oceans -- Instruments of empire -- Juan Trippe in the Caribbean laboratory -- From China clippers to the North Atlantic -- World War II: air transport comes of age -- Achievements of the air transport command -- Postwar politics -- The chosen instrument: Pan American vs. the world -- The challenge of new competition -- The fateful climax of the air coach controversy -- Advent of the jets -- The equipment race -- Jet age giants -- The example of United -- American: heir of the AVCO empire -- Eastern: Rickenbacker, Rockefeller and the American merger -- TWA and the enigma of Howard Hughes -- The stormy career of national airlines -- Northwest and the great circle run to the Orient -- Delta: a crop duster's progress or virtue rewarded -- Continental and the furor over fares -- A dark horizon -- Technical triumph and financial failure -- Policy or politics?