Records, 1935-1983.

United States. Department of Transportation

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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is headed by the secretary of transportation, who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. Prior to the creation of the Department of Transportation, its functions were administered by the under secretary of commerce for transportation. In 1965, Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (p...

Volpe, John A. (John Anthony), 1908-1994

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John (Gionne) Anthony Volpe was born December 8, 1908, in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His family-owned construction company built hospitals, schools, shopping centers, public buildings, including the Department of Transportation headquarters building and the Nassif Building, and military installations along the Eastern seaboard and in other parts of the country. In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower named the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works as the interim-but first--Federal Highwa...

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012

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George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician, historian, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals besto...

Piper Aircraft Corporation

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Womens International Association of Aeronautics, Inc.

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National Aviation Trades Association (U.S.)

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Hartranft, Joseph B. 1915-2002.

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American Organization of Airport Executives.

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Aircraft Industries Association of America

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Relief Wings, Inc.

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Private Flyers Association, Inc.

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Aeronautical Training Society.

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Boyd, Alan S. 1922-

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United States. Federal Aviation Administration

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Legislative history of Public Law 89-670, which established the Department of Transportation. The department was set up to coordinate and manage transportation programs, provide leadership in the resolution of transportation problems, and develop national transportation policies and programs. The history documents the process from just prior to the introduction of the bill into the 89th Congress until after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law on October 15, 1966. From the ...

American Mercury Insurance Company.

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Bellanca Aircraft Corporation

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Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974

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Luther Hartwell Hodges began his career as an executive for Marshall Field & Comapny, 1919-1950. He was later consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration, 1950-1951; lieutenant governor, 1953- 1954, and governor, 1956-1960, of North Carolina; United Sates Secretary of Commerce, 1961-1965; head of the Research Triangle Foundation, 1966-1972; and president of Rotary International, 1967-1968. From the description of Luther Hartwell Hodges papers, 1947-1969. WorldCat record...

Aviation Country Clubs, Inc.

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National Aviation Club (U.S.)

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Butterfield, Alexander Porter, 1926-

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Alexander Porter Butterfield (b. 1926) was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, advancing through the ranks to colonel. He served as military assistant to the special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, 1965 to 1966, and retired from the Air Force in 1969. He was Deputy Assistant to President Nixon from 1969 to 1973, on the staff of H.R. Haldeman. In the White House, he was the chief administrative officer, coordinating or supervising numerous White House operations. He had oversight responsibil...

Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960

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Flyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Ruth Rowland Nichols : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343149 ...

Beech Aircraft Corporation

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Halaby, Najeeb E., 1915-2003

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Lawyer, financier. From the description of Reminiscences of Najeeb E. Halaby : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131554 ...

National Association of Flight Instructors (U.S.)

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International Aeronautic Federation

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Pew, R. Anderson (Robert Anderson), 1936-

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Robert Anderson Pew was born August 22, 1936 in the old Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Arthur E. Pew, Jr. and Mary Elliott Pew. He has one brother, Arthur E. Pew, III. In 1941 he moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island with his mother and step-father, Edmund Quincy Trowbridge. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1954, then went on to Princeton University and graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1959. He was a Sloan Fellow at the Massach...

Aviation Employees Insurance Company.

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Prior, Beatrix R. C.

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Sharples, Laurence P. (Laurence Price), 1891-1976

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Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company.

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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

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The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) was founded in 1939 in order to protect the interests of the pilots and owners of private aircraft, who feared that with the expansion of commercial aviation they would be denied access to the nation's airports. During the Second World War, the AOPA worked with the Air Force and Navy to train pilots for military service and for work with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). After the war the organization resumed its lo...

Aerospace Industries Association of America

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United States. National Transportation Safety Board

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Wolf, Alfred L. (Alfred Loeb), 1904-1985

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