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bankruptcy of, 46, 50

Franklin’s leave from, 64

Gibbs’s exit from, 78, 79, 85

Ismay’s resignation from, 46

John Franklin brought into, 127

Leviathan reconversion and, 70–79, 83–84

Panama Pacific Line and, 106

superliner project on hold at, 68, 74

Titanic disaster and, 37–46, 75

United States Lines deal of, 127–28

World War I and, 50, 52, 53, 60

International Navigation Company (Red Star Line), 4, 11, 24

International Union of Masters, Mates and Pilots, 347

Inverclyde, Lord, 24

Ireland, 39, 52, 169

Ismay, J. Bruce, 24, 38–42, 46

Ismay, Thomas, 9

Italian Line, 135, 167, 205, 213, 332, 346

Italy, 96, 97, 101, 107, 112

Fascist, 135–36, 153

World War II and, 167

Jacob Christiansen, 108–9, 112

James, William, 18

James River, 243, 245, 264, 270, 354

Japan, 107, 141, 350

in World War II, 173–74, 180, 193, 194, 198, 225

Jeremiah O’Brien, 368

Jews, 9, 147, 153, 166, 167, 232

J. H. Winchester & Company, 117

J. J. Henry & Company, 336

John Brown & Company, 26, 30, 150

Johnson, Louis A., 226, 227, 234–36

Johnson, Lyndon, 348

John W. Brown, 368

Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 235–36

Jones, Walter, 270

Jones-White Act (1928), 155

J. P. Morgan and Company, 60–62

Justice Department, U.S., 284

Kaempffert, Waldemar, 122, 124

Kaiser, Bill, 266, 267–68, 291, 315, 323, 352

United States’ maiden voyage and, 293, 298, 302, 305

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 12, 28–29

Kaiser Wilhelm II, 27–30, 117

Kane, John R., 355–56

Kaplan, Elaine Scholley, 231–33, 243, 245, 270, 289, 322, 366

United States’ maiden voyage and, 296, 308

Kaplan, Howard, 231–32, 243, 296, 322

Keating, Cletus, 221

keels, 39, 107, 226–30, 336

of SS United States, 227–30, 249, 359

of USS United States, 226

Keller, K. T., 211

Kendall, Henry, 109

Kennan, George, 218

Kennedy, Joseph P., 155–56

Kerstgens, Frieda, 329

King, William, 253

Kipling, Rudyard, 342–43

kitchens, 153, 300–301

kitchen staff, 212, 274

Kline, Robert E., Jr., 183–84, 186

Knickerboocker Trust Company, 33

knots, 6

see also speed

Knox, Frank, 174, 184

Korean War, 234–35, 244, 280, 302

kosher kitchens, 153, 300

Kronprinzessin Cecilie, 117

Kronprinz Wilhelm, 28–29

Krudener, Bill, 275–79, 287–88, 324–25, 327–28, 345, 369

United States’ maiden voyage and, 299, 301, 303, 307

Kuhn, Ferdinand, 121

labor costs, 208, 216, 217, 347, 354

labor unions, 94, 127, 155, 161–63, 216, 217, 275, 278, 344, 347–48, 366

Lafayette, USS, 174–76, 180

La Follette, Robert, 77

LaGuardia Airport, 214

Laing, Andrew, 26, 30

lamps, 251–52, 256, 326

Lancaster, Burt, 323, 328

Land, Emory S., 143, 144, 156, 162, 171

Bates’s support from, 195

FDR’s directive to, 198

Gibbs’s problems with, 172–73, 179, 195

Harris’s correspondence with, 198–99

resignation of, 203, 208

Land, Mrs. Emory S., 171

landing craft, 176, 189, 195

Lantz, Michael, 257

Lapham, Lewis, 351–52

Larkin, Adrian, 100, 101, 103, 245, 339, 341, 342, 343

Larkin, James, 100

Larkin, Vera Cravath, see Gibbs, Vera Cravath

Lasker, Albert, 76–79, 83, 84, 85, 116

Leviathan’ s maiden voyage and, 90

law, lawyers, 17, 35, 48–49, 56, 58, 189

Cravath and, 100–101, 102, 104

Leahy, William D., 145

Lebrun, Albert François, 137

Le Corbusier, 122

Lee, Howard E., Jr., 239

Le Havre, 137, 174, 207, 276

United States in, 308, 310–11, 328, 331–32

Lenfest, H. F. “Gerry,” 368–70

Leonardo da Vinci, 346

Leviathan, 69–97, 101, 115–18, 136, 266, 274, 346

accident of, 123–24, 201

aging of, 116, 122

Bremen compared with, 120

Design 12201/ United States compared with, 203, 259, 260

design flaws of, 92–93

earnings of, 91–92, 115, 154, 156

Gibbs Brothers’ loss of, 91, 105

Gibbs’s lessons from, 246

maiden transatlantic voyage of, 82, 88–91, 93, 106

as model for Design 12201, 201

obsolescence of, 97

public controversy about, 74–75, 77

race proposed for, 92

reconversion of, 70–87, 92–93, 97, 106, 260

replacement for, see America

retirement of, 154–55, 158–59, 313

sale of, 116–18

size of, 81–82, 90, 116

trials of, 81, 85–88, 266

as troop ship, 64, 70, 362

Leviathan II, 126, 128

Leviathan III, 126, 128

Levy, Cissie, 326

Lewis, Milton, 314

Leyland, 24

Liberté, 214, 305, 336, 346

Liberty Ships, 171–73, 176, 178, 179, 231, 361, 362, 368

Lie, Trygve, 302

Life, 243, 331

lifeboat drills, 299, 301

lifeboats, 45, 51, 52, 53, 111, 333

of Morro Castle, 119, 129, 130, 132, 133

of Olympic, 43

of Titanic, 40, 41, 42

of United States, 237, 259, 299, 301, 360

of Washington, 168, 169

Lincoln, Abraham, 330, 341

Lindbergh, Charles, 159, 160

Linder, First Officer, 95–96

Lippmann, Walter, 20

Lipton, Seymour, 257, 268

Liverpool, 8, 9, 10, 27, 52, 109

Locust Valley, 101, 104, 181, 340

logs, 293

London, 45, 101, 112, 167, 345

London Daily Mail, 296–97

Long Island, 54, 59, 60, 61, 83, 102, 247, 341

Locust Valley in, 101, 104, 181, 340

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), 59

“Long Telegram” (Kennan), 218

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 89

lounges, United States, 235, 251–52, 253, 267–268, 285, 308

Lucania, 3 n, 12

Luftwaffe, 165, 167, 204

Lusitania, 25–28, 30, 32, 38, 111, 333–34

reparations for, 97

United States compared with, 233, 260

World War I and, 52–53

Lux, Gwen, 255, 270, 296, 308

luxury, 6, 9, 14, 16, 21, 39, 47, 84, 92, 198, 361

of America, 158, 212

Design 12201/ United States and, 207, 235, 246, 256, 259, 356

of German superliners, 50, 51

of Italian ships, 135

of Mauretania, 27–28

of Morro Castle and Oriente, 119

in 1920s, 114–16, 119

of Normandie, 136–37

safety vs., 132, 246

MacArthur, Douglas, 235, 280

McCloy, John J., 15, 352

McCormack, Emmet, 77

McCrary, Eugenia, 325–26

McGranery, James P., 283, 284

MacIver, Charles, 8

Mackay-Bennett, 46–47

McKeough, Raymond, 221–22, 227–28

McLean, Malcolm, 336

McMullen, John P., 350

MacMurray, Fred, 323

Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 143

Mahan -class destroyers, 143–46, 362

mail, 8, 9, 11, 54, 121, 125, 133, 155

Leviathan and, 77, 89

Maine, 146, 171, 186, 343, 366

Main Line, 34, 49, 255

Majestic, 81–82, 88, 92, 93, 97, 114, 115, 201

aging of, 116, 154

Malmquist, Sidney, 297–98

Malmsea, Andrew, 276, 299

Malolo, 105–13, 140, 289, 351

near sinking of, 108–12, 201, 332, 362

Manhattan, 128, 169, 198, 294

Manning, Florence Isabella Trowbridge Heaton, 167

Manning, Harry, 51, 93–96, 212, 318, 352

airplanes and, 159, 160–61

marriage of, 167