Introduction -- Entrepreneurship, its origins and recent experience -- Overview of the global aviation industry 1903 to 1945 -- Entrepreneurial aviators -- The earliest days in the United States : the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, Allan Lockheed and Glenn L. Martin -- The French connection...

The world the box made -- Gridlock on the docks -- The trucker -- The system -- The battle for New York's port -- Union disunion -- Setting the standard -- Takeoff -- Vietnam -- Ports in a storm -- Boom and bust -- The bigness complex -- The shippers' revenge -- Just in time