Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare : the Story of the American Aerospace Industry

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JHU Press, 2001 - 366 страница

A 1991 New York Times Notable Book of the Year

This panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's military-industrial complex: Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan and Malcolm Loughead of Lockheed. Weaving together institutional history and individual biography, Wayne Biddle depicts the years of uncertainty after World War I, the bonanza of World War II, and the cutthroat postwar market. Unlike the automobile industry, the aircraft industry could never be sustained by the middle-class consumer economy, and these legendary founders had to depend on the federal government to keep their companies aloft. Barons of the Sky tells a thrilling story of obsessed men who, chasing their dreams of flight and success, created the modern aerospace weapons industry.

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PREFACE TO
7
Fantasies
19
INVENTION BEFORE INDUSTRY
25
MONEYMINDED ECCENTRICS
44
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
68
THE GREAT PROPOSITION
81
THE RAT RACE
113
DEPRESSION
166
MERCHANTS OF DEATH
194
EXPORTS
232
THE IRON CORNUCOPIA
270
PERMANENT REARMAMENT
288
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