{"product_id":"b0gglw7n85","title":"Designed Emergence: U.S. Postal Air Mail Spreads its Wings - Book Two (Airline Regulatory Economics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe intent of the Airline Regulatory Economics Series is to compile a history of U.S. Federal Government activities in owning, operating, developing, promoting and economically-regulating U.S. air carriers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhereas the origination of the U.S. Aerial Mail Service came about through a series of seemingly random events driven by many that coalesced to produce the inauguration of air mail on May 15, 1918, ─ and described in Volume I,  Random Convergence , the episodes occurring between July 1918 through June 1921 surrounding U.S. air mail were very much the product of a different milieu: one of intent, driven primarily by two committed public servants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePostmaster General Albert Burleson and Second Assistant Otto Praeger were writing the world’s first manual on how to run an airline in real time, on a daily basis. Every measure they employed to overcome problems had never been tested before; it was all new. There were no benchmarks. To quote John Jordan of the Post Office: “I don’t know very much about this game – nobody does.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVolume II,  Designed Emergence , narrates the initial years of U.S. air mail between 1918 and 1921 – three bracing years that featured actual heroes and those who thought they were. The U.S. Postal Service inaugurated a pioneering transcontinental air route in 1920, but at a cost that many believed was not worth the sacrifice – much like the Great War that produced the Aerial Mail Service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe three exhilarating years surveyed in Volume II,  Designed Emergence  – July 1918 to June 1921 – embody the peak of the development of the Aerial Mail Service. Find out for yourself – this is Book Two of Three.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67938531704868,"sku":"YSL44682","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/61HWsWF8-BL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793286087","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0gglw7n85","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}