Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City

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125 ▶ Introduction 1. Las Vegas McCarran International Airport News Release, “Terminal 3 More than 50% Complete,” January 2010, 12, http://www.mccarran.com. 2. Hawley, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly, 240. chapter one ▶ The Airlines Come to Las Vegas 1. Evensen, “Vegas Air History.” Also see Harrington, “History of Aviation in Las Vegas Valley,” 5. 2. Evensen, “Vegas Air History,” 12. 3. Ibid. Also see Robert Griffith, former postmaster general, to Arthur F. Kelly, Delta Airlines vice president of sales, September 10, 1962, Western Airlines Collection, Delta Airlines Archive, Atlanta. 4. Quoted in Courtwright, Sky as Frontier, 59. 5. Bender and Altschul, The Chosen Instrument, 65. 6. Clark County Review, October 23, 1920, 1. 7. Ibid., October 9, 1920, 1. 8. Ibid., June 11, 1921, 1. 9. “Air Mail May Come This Way,” ibid., February 12, 1921, 1. Also see “May Route Air Mail via Vegas,” ibid., October 23, 1920, 1. 10. Clark County Review, March 19, 1921, 1. 11. Wright, Desert Airways, 5. 12. Clark County Review, March 19, 1926, 1. 13. Honorable W. W. Hawes, Second Assistant Postmaster General in Washington D.C., Summarization of Western Air Express, July 1, 1933, 1, in Western Airlines Collection , Delta Airlines Archive, Atlanta. 14. Davies, Airlines of the United States Since 1914, 43, 65. Also see Hawes, Summarization of Western Air Express, 1. 15. Solberg, Conquest of the Skies, 38. Also see Hawes, Summarization of Western Air Express, 2, 38; and Davies, Airlines of the United States Since 1914, 65. 16. Hawes, Summarization of Western Air Express, 2, 3. 17. Bilstein, Flight in America, 30–31. 18. Ibid. Notes ▶ 126 ◀ Notes to Pages 11–23 19. Wilson and Handlin, Herbert Hoover, 113, 120. 20. Office of the Federal Register, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929 (1974), 145. Also see Wilbur and Hyde, The Hoover Policies, 215, 216. 21. Solberg, Conquest of the Skies, 63. Also see Wilbur and Hyde, The Hoover Policies, 216–218; and Public Papers of Presidents of the United States: Hoover, 1929, 145. 22. Heppenheimer, Turbulent Skies, 14. 23. Roske, Las Vegas, 69. Also see “Plane Conveys Human Freight,” Salt Lake Tribune , May 24, 1926, 1. 24. Embry, “Air Travel in the Southwest,” 13. 25. Southern California Rapid Transportation District Newsletter, July 28, 1976, 5. Also see Solberg, Conquest of the Skies, 104. 26. Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Minutes, January 4, 1927. 27. Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 28, 1964, 55. 28. Clark County Review, February 5, 1921, 1. 29. Ibid., December 30, 1921, 1. 30. Armstrong, Robinson, and Hoy, History of Public Works in the United States, 188. 31. Wright, Desert Airways, 5. 32. Robert Griffith, former postmaster general to Arthur F. Kelly, vice president of sales at Delta Airlines, September 10, 1962, Delta Airlines Collection, Atlanta. 33. Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, 3–7. 34. Rothman, Neon Metropolis, 5. 35. Roske, Las Vegas, 77. 36. Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, 18. 37. Roske, Las Vegas, 85. Also see Irv Owen in Russo, The Outfit, 286, 287. Also see Denton and Morris, The Money and the Power, 174. 38. Nevada State Assemblyman Phil Tobin, quoted in Land and Land, A Short History of Las Vegas, 84. 39. Russo, The Outfit, 286. 40. Harrington, “History of Aviation in the Las Vegas Valley,” 4. 41. Hawes, Summarization of Western Air Express, 2. Also see Launius and Embry, “Fledgling Wings,” 17. 42. Chicago Herald and Examiner, July 2, 1927, in Flying Across America, by Rust, 8. 43. Marcia Davenport, “Covered Wagon—1932,” Good Housekeeping, October 1932, in Flying Across America, by Rust, 13. 44. Bilstein, Flight in America, 57. 45. Senator Hugo Black to Walter Folger Brown, January 27, 1934, Walter Folger Brown Papers, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus. 46. Postmaster General James A. Farley to Walter Folger Brown, January 19, 1934, ibid. 47. Walter Folger Brown to William Randolph Hearst, February 9, 1934, ibid. Also note that Brown sought Hearst’s assistance to clear his name. 48. Walter Folger Brown to Senator Simeon D. Fess, February 10, 1934, ibid. 49. Solberg, Conquest of the Skies, 113. Notes to Pages 24–37 ▶ 127 50. Ibid. 51. Message from Senator Patrick McCarran to the National Aviation Forum, January 7, 1940, Senator Patrick McCarran Collection, Nevada Historical Society, Reno. 52. U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce hearing of S.3187, April 12, 1934, ibid. Also see Washington Daily News...