Air-mail contracts, canceling of, 181-182, 186, 209 Air-mail rates, 298-299, 301 cut in, 298 and subsidies, 298-301 Air Policy Commission, temporary, 289 Air power, 5, 267-268, 285, 293 American, Lindbergh’s influence on, 103-104 economics of, 279-282 and foreign policy, 288 new concept of, 276-277, 287-288 public relations program for, 270, 283-284 and sea power, 267 studies of, 279-283 _Air Power for Peace_, 287-288 Air transport, commercial, 97, 186-187, 255, 267, 285, 288, 291, 294-296 and foreign policy, 295 military, 279-280, 291 veterans’ development of, 303-304 wartime importance of, 287-288 (_See also_ Air carrier service) Air Transport Association, 294, 303 Air Transport Command (ATC), 255, 279 Aircraft, 4 carrier, 21-22 combat, 195 experimental, 297 foreign, 95-96, 204 personal, 96, 273, 277 rigid, 10, 56, 58, 67, 70, 181 styling of, 110 and world freedom, 310 (_See also_ kinds of aircraft, as Bombers) Aircraft carriers, 5, 21-22, 127-128, 182, 190, 257-258 deck landings on, 116, 122, 125, 249-250 number of planes on, 116, 194 in relation to battleships, 134-135, 141-142, 147-148 vulnerability of, 292 Aircraft Industries Association of America, 283, 287, 290, 295, 308 Aircraft industry, 16, 23, 29-36, 51, 66-67, 72, 109-111, 183, 197, 199-203 air-power policy of, 276-277, 295, 297 assembly line in, 240-241 conference of, 1938, 213-216 consolidations in, 153-154 foreign, 196 and foreign markets, 188-192, 204, 220-222, 229 and foreign policy, 195 importance of, 275-276 investigations of, 181-182, 187, 249, 258, 270-287 nationalization of, 23 postwar difficulties of, 285-286 and public relations, 262-271, 283-284, 297 reconversion in, 260-262, 272 and red tape, 306-307 unification of, 262-263 and the unions, 249-251, 273 wartime criticism of, 242 Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet (FLEET AIR), 111-112, 117-118, 121, 123-124, 126, 129-130, 137, 151-152, 157, 183, 187, 202 Airfoil, wing-flapped, 179 Airline operators, policy recommendations of, 297 Airlines, 280 “Big Four,” 298, 304 feeder lines for, 301 legal fees paid by, 306-307 mismanagement of, 302 monopoly in, 303 number of employees in, 302 overseas, 294, 305-306 private investment in, 302 reasonable regulation of, 280-281, 294, 298, 303-308 and subsidies, 299-301, 306 (_See also_ Air carrier service; Air transport) AIRONS (_see_ Aircraft squadrons) _Airplane, The_, 91, 188 Airplane catapults, 5-6, 21, 49