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Connally, Lucille, 244, 245

Connally, Tom, 244

construction, 9, 10, 25, 39, 45, 71–74, 84, 133, 146, 155, 170, 218

of Design 12201/ United States, 208, 215, 216, 217, 220, 221, 227, 229–31, 235, 237–41, 266, 282, 283, 295, 319, 361–62

of destroyers, 171

Leviathan and, 71, 73–74, 79–81

of Lusitania - Mauretania, 30, 39

of Malolo, 105, 107–8

of Normandie, 174

U.S. dismal time for, 106–7, 108

Vaterland / Leviathan and, 64, 71, 73–74, 77, 79, 80–81, 85

containerization, 336

Conte di Savoia, 135, 153, 167

cooks, 212, 265, 274, 277, 293

Cornell, Katharine, 338

corruption, 155, 219, 280

Council of Foreign Relations, 104

Cove, George E., 318

Cox, Daniel, 125, 146–47

Cram, George, 21

Cramp, Charles H., 4, 5

Cramp Shipyard, 3–6, 10, 105, 108, 110, 111, 272, 369

“crash ahead test,” 271

crash gates, 258–59

Cravath, Agnes, 101

Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, 100–101, 102, 104

Cravath, Paul, 15, 100–104, 340, 352

Cravath, Vera, see Gibbs, Vera Cravath

crew, 347, 353

boat drill and, 299

of Morro Castle, 132, 133, 162

Panamanian registry and, 162

of United States, 273–79, 316–17, 327–28

wages of, 208, 216

Cristoforo Colombo, 213

cruisers, 142, 174, 176, 179, 180

cruises, pleasure, 349, 350, 353, 354–55, 358, 361–62, 368

cuisine, 8, 9, 90, 114, 212

United States and, 265, 274, 277, 289, 293, 299–300, 330

Cunard, Samuel, 8, 18

Cunard Line, 3 n, 8, 9, 24–33, 106, 114, 116, 122–23

Blue Riband and, 7 n, 11–12, 26–27, 30–33, 39, 116, 120, 122, 149, 152, 206, 307

engines used by, 29–30

IMM and, 24–25, 52

rate war and, 39

World War I and, 52

see also Lusitania; Mauretania

Cunard Shipping Company, 24–25

Cunard White Star Line Limited, 154, 205, 301, 346–47, 350, 361

formation of, 151

Mayer’s deal with, 357, 358

postwar future of, 212–13

Queen Mary and, 7 n, 148–54

World War II and, 165, 166, 204

Cunningham, Harold, 123

Curran, Big Joe, 161–63, 275, 347, 366

currents, 7, 88, 314

Currie, John, 31

Curtis turbo generator system, 54–57, 125, 141

Dali, Gala, 328

Dali, Salvador, 323, 328

Dallas, Rebekah, 232

dal Piaz, Jean, 115–16

dance-card problem, 304

Daniel, Clifton, Jr., 331

Daniels, Josephus, 55, 58

Davidson, James H., 145–46

David W. Taylor Model Basin, 210

Davis, Meyer, 274, 294, 298, 303, 360

Dawson, William, 227

D-Day, 180, 189

deck crew, 273

deck log, 293

defense budget, U.S., 219, 235

Defense Department, U.S., 219, 234, 235

De Lancey School, 16–17

Delaware River, 358, 359, 369, 370

Democrats, 182, 244, 280, 331

Denfield, Louis, 226

Dennison, Robert, 318–19

design, 30–33, 62

aircraft, 214

of Bremen, 120–21

Gibbs and, 18–19, 32, 33, 47, 49–50, 56–60, 72–73, 78, 79, 84–85, 112, 138–41, 146, 147, 148, 150, 153, 156–57, 169, 171, 175, 179, 183, 193, 210, 211, 215, 219, 319, 335, 337, 342, 355–56, 362

hull, see hull design

Leviathan’ s flaws in, 92–93

of Malolo, 107, 111, 112

of Queen Mary, 149–50

U.S. Navy and, 43, 55, 57, 146, 183, 184, 185, 354, 355

Design IV, 195, 196, 203, 208–9, 210

Design 11811, 195–96, 203, 205

Design 12201, 200–211, 215–22, 313

contract signing for, 222–25

cost of, 203, 206, 208, 215, 216, 220, 223

earnings expected from, 216, 217

escalator clause and, 221

German models for, 201

troop transport and, 206, 210–11

destroyers, 142–48, 170, 171, 174, 176, 179, 180, 186, 195, 335, 340, 356, 362

engines in, 144, 145, 150, 153, 157, 202

Vinson Naval Plan and, 182

Destroyers (band), 232

Deutschland, 27, 28–29, 89

Dickens, Charles, 31

Dilworth, Richardson, 333

dining rooms, 90–91, 136–37

of United States, 252, 254–55, 257, 258, 265, 268, 270, 289, 299–300, 302, 307–8, 325

Disney, Walt, 323

divorce, 38, 100, 101, 295 n

doors, fire, 119, 131, 132, 158, 260

double reduction gears, 142, 144, 202

“Dover Beach” (Arnold), 266

draperies, 247, 253, 254, 326

Dreadnought, HMS, 29

Drexel, Anthony Joseph, Jr., 15, 28

duBarry, William, 127 n

Duck Suite, 295, 326–27, 357, 360

Dunn, Laura Franklin, 66, 163, 294–96, 309, 310, 327, 366

DuPont PAW tape, 238

Dynel, 247, 248, 254

Earhart, Amelia, 160

Eastern Europe, 9, 167, 218, 348

Edison, Charles, 163, 179

Eggers & Higgins, 246, 253

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 65–67, 197, 280, 302, 318–19

elections, U.S.:

of 1936, 155

of 1952, 280, 302, 318

electrical system, 214

of Leviathan, 80, 81

of United States, 260

electric drive, 54–57

Electric Storage Battery Company, 4, 23, 98

see also Exide

Eliot, Charles, 18

Eliot, T. S., 20

Elkins, William, 14

Ellington, Duke, 213, 323, 360

Ellison Bronze Company, 250

Emerald, The, 367–68

emergency backup systems, 260

Emergency Fleet Corporation, 118

Emergency Shipbuilding Program, 118

Emmet, William LeRoy, 54–58, 60, 122

Empress of Ireland, 109–10

engine crew, 273

engineers, engineering, 14, 26, 32, 48, 49, 54, 62, 93, 97, 99, 144, 183

Gibbs’s reading about, 13, 16, 85

at Harvard, 17, 20–21, 34

U.S. Navy, 19, 55, 57–58

W. W. Gibbs’s view of, 17, 35, 189

engines, 28–30, 54–57, 138–39, 202, 361

of Bremen, 120, 121

of Design 12201/ United States, 202, 231, 263, 266, 267, 269, 271, 293, 297–98, 305, 356, 359

in destroyers, 144, 145, 150, 153, 157, 202

of German express liner, 209

Gibbs’s ships and, 54, 140, 202

of Normandie, 138

of Queen Mary, 150, 153, 202

of Rex, 135

smaller, 124–25, 141, 143, 144, 145, 153, 203

technological advances in, 10, 28, 29, 124–25

of Vaterland / Leviathan, 64, 80, 81, 87–88, 89, 92

England, 7, 8, 26, 41, 57, 59, 89, 139, 311

cargo vessels for, 170–71

English Channel, 90, 122, 199, 218, 310, 311

Episcopal Church, 343–44

Europa, 116, 120–23, 125, 126, 135, 136, 201, 213–14, 305, 346

Nazism and, 153

World War II and, 164, 165, 213

Exide, 56, 98

expansion joints, 157

explosions, 52–53, 131, 160

Expressions of Freedom (Lux), 255, 270

Fantasia, 361

fares, 28, 39, 229, 255, 257, 258

Federal Communications Commission, 323

Federal Maritime Board, 229, 261, 262, 282, 283

Federal Shipyards, 146

Fender, Frederick, 294

Ferguson, Homer, 79, 80, 82–83

Ferris, Theodore, 118–19, 140

Gibbs’s rivalry with, 97, 106, 112–13, 118–19, 125

Morro Castle and, 119, 131–34, 141

superliner plans unveiled by, 126–27, 128, 134

50th Army Band, 244, 245

fighter planes, 225, 226

film, 129, 323, 331–32

fireboats, 175, 368

fire doors, 119, 131, 132, 158, 260

Fire Fighter, 175

firefighting equipment, 14, 119, 132

fireproof materials, fireproofing, 132, 158, 362

for Design 12201/ United States, 220, 247, 249, 253, 255