Allen, Oliver E.

The airline builders / by Oliver E. Allen and the editors of Time-Life Books. - Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books, ©1981. - 176 pages : ill. (some color) ; 29 cm. - Epic of flight . - Epic of flight .

With hardcover

Includes bibliogr. and index

Cont.: European trailblazers on a cloud-filled frontier -- America's young airlines: saved by the mail -- The forging of the big four -- Evolution of the plane that transformed air travel -- The man who shrank the Earth.

Describes the development of commercial passenger service from its beginning until World War II.

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Aeronautics, commercial--History--United States
Airlines--History--United States