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United States and, 264–68, 271, 277–78, 285, 291–92, 294, 297–312, 314–15, 317–18, 356

World War II and, 167–69

mansions, 13, 15–16, 23, 181, 341

Marckwald, Dorothy, 140, 158, 367

United States and, 234, 235, 245–48, 251–56, 259–60, 296, 360

Marie, Jean, 346

Marie, Queen of Romania, 114

Marine Age, 214

Marine Engineering, 132

Marine Engineering and Shipping News, 92, 111–12

Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, 347

Marine News, 82

Marines, U.S., 87

Marinite, 158, 249

Maritime Administration, U.S, 229, 236, 280, 281, 349, 350, 354, 356

Maritime Commission, U.S., 155–56, 157, 170–73, 185, 209

abolition of, 228, 229, 236

Audit Branch of, 172

Bureau of Engineering of, 195, 199

creation of, 44, 155

Design 11811 and, 195

Design 12201/ United States and, 207, 208, 210, 215, 216, 220–23, 225, 227–28

FDR’s directive to, 198

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

Harris’s letter to, 198–99

House investigation of, 227–28

John Franklin’s seeking of subsidy and, 207, 215

John Franklin’s work for, 197

Land’s resignation from, 203, 208

post–World War II designs considered by, 195

Maritime Service, U.S., 366

Maritime Service Station, U.S., 276–77

Marshall, George C., 236

Mary, Queen of England, 151, 241

mass production, 146, 171–72, 178, 179, 361–62

mathematics, 21, 48, 54

Matson Line, 105, 332

Mauretania, 25–28, 42, 50, 97, 120–23, 273, 346

aging of, 116, 122–23

Gibbs’s ships compared with, 54, 56, 59

maiden voyage of, 27–28, 30–33, 38, 307

retirement of, 154

speed of, 32, 33, 56, 59, 69, 84, 88, 90, 91, 92, 116, 121, 266

trial run of, 26, 31, 88

World War I and, 52

Mayer, Fred, 357–58

Mayflower, 10 n

Maynor, Dorothy, 103

medals, commemorative, 316

Mellin, Rev. John O., 351

Mellon, Grenville, 221, 222, 227, 228

merchant marine, German, 76

merchant marine, U.S., 5, 9, 44, 52, 90, 118, 156, 161, 198, 217, 273, 304

advisory committee to, 211–12, 218–19

Senate investigation of, 133

Merchant Marine Act (1920), 358

Merchant Marine Act (1936), 155, 215, 220, 284

merchant ships, 179

Merman, Ethel, 323, 360

Meyer Davis Orchestra, 254, 274, 294, 298, 300, 301, 303

Michelangelo, 346

Mitchell, Ewing Y., 155

model shop, 145, 202, 208–9

model tests, 57–59, 62, 208–9, 210

for United States, 233–34, 239, 247–48, 264

Monarch of Bermuda, 129–30

Monitor, 10 n

Monroe, Marilyn, 323

Monroe-McCormack, 77

Montauk, Long Island, 54, 59, 61, 83, 336

Monticello, 117

Mooney, Franklin, 132–33

Moore, Albert V., 77

Morgan, John Pierpont, 9, 12, 18, 23–25, 37, 38–39, 45, 50, 61, 100, 348, 367

Ballin’s profit-sharing agreement with, 24, 51

IMM mistake made by, 52

last years and death of, 45–46, 60

Morgan, J. P., Jr. “Jack,” 46, 50, 52, 60–62, 68, 75, 83

Gibbs brothers’ meeting with, 61–62, 244

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 20

Morris, Frederick, 351

Morro Castle, 119, 141, 155, 162, 249

fire in, 129–34, 158, 161, 174, 176, 260, 334

Mount Vernon, 117

movie theaters, 306

in United States, 250, 253–54, 258, 270, 289, 303, 308, 316–17, 360

Mull, J. Harry, 111

Müller, Herman, 276, 277

murals, 158, 247, 249, 255

in United States, 205, 251, 252, 257, 357

murder, 130–31

music, 28, 88, 137, 232, 317, 337

superliner project compared with, 194–95, 273

United States and, 243, 245, 254, 274, 275, 294, 296, 298, 300, 301, 303, 308, 309–10, 312, 323, 330, 360

Vera Gibbs and, 100, 102, 103, 104, 338, 341, 365

Mussolini, Benito, 135, 136, 153

My Fair Lady (musical), 337

Nancy Moran, 298

National Bureau of Standards, 247–48

National Maritime Union (NMU), 161–63, 275, 278, 347, 366

nautical miles, 6, 26, 88

Navajo Lounge, 252, 253, 285

Naval Intelligence, U.S., 209

Naval Review (1897), 29

Navigation Act, U.S. (1817), 23

navigation system, 260–61

Navy, German, 29

Navy, U.S., 19, 33, 43, 55–58, 79, 87, 89, 163, 219, 362

Board of Inspection of, 146

Bureau of Construction and Repair of, 56–58, 107, 143, 156

Bureau of Engineering of, 141, 144, 147

Bureau of Ships of, 184, 229

Design 12201/ United States and, 210–11, 220, 228, 242, 251, 254, 268, 284, 354, 355

Gibbs & Cox work for, 142–48, 157, 166, 181–89, 202, 335–36, 367

Leviathan decommissioned by, 74

rebuilding of, 134, 141–48, 157, 182

supercarrier plans and, 225–26

World War II and, 169, 173–76, 180, 273

Navy Department, U.S., 56–57, 145, 146, 183, 188, 209, 262

Navy Experimental Model Basin, U.S., 57–59, 62

Navy Renegotiation Board, 185, 187

Neighborhood Playhouse Theater, 338

Neutrality Act (1939), 161

Newcastle, 26, 27, 30

New Deal, 181–82, 244

New Jersey, 130, 146, 176, 331, 336, 352

Shore of, 4, 14–15, 16, 129–30

New Jersey Meadowlands, 240

Newport News, Va., 229, 243, 278, 279, 283, 284, 285, 357

Mariners’ Museum in, 352, 365, 367

Newport News Daily Press, 235, 249

Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 108, 139, 148, 335–36, 355, 367

America and, 157–58, 161

Design 12201/ United States and, 220, 221, 228–31, 233–34, 237–45, 263, 268, 269, 271, 283, 287, 317, 353, 359, 367

Gibbs hated by, 158, 186

Leviathan and, 78–83, 87

supercarrier plans and, 226

Newport News Times, 270

newsboy accident, 34

New York, 11, 244

New York American, 42, 75

New York Chancery Court, 46

New York City, 4, 7, 8, 18, 27, 58, 59, 64–68, 88, 97, 111, 119, 207, 213, 218, 255, 283–298, 313–18, 332, 337–41

airports in, 214, 345

anti-Nazi rioters in, 153, 154

arts in, 337–39, 344, 365

Astor family in, 37–38

Bremen’ s escape from, 164

Broad Street Club in, 203–6, 215

Carpathia’ s arrival in, 40

Christopher Gibbs’s visit to, 343

Chrysler Building in, 256

containerization and, 336

fireboats in, 175, 368

Gibbs & Cox move in, 144–45

Gibbs and Cox office in, 144–45, 170, 173, 177, 187, 189, 207, 224–25, 286, 298, 315, 321, 337, 350

Gibbs brothers’ apartment in, 62, 98

Gibbs’s returns to, 80, 243

Leviathan’ s returns to, 91, 115, 124, 154

Mauretania’ s arrival in, 32–33

Morro Castle and, 119, 130

Normandie in, 137–38

Queen Mary in, 152, 153, 286

real estate in, 35, 38, 47, 49, 181, 340

Shipping Board office in, 77

shipping trust and, 12, 23

ticker-tape parade in, 315

United States’ journey to, 278, 279, 283, 284, 286, 287–88, 317

United States’ returns to, 313, 314–15, 318, 320–21, 353, 369–70

United States’ trials and, 269

Vaterland’ s arrivals in, 51

Vera Gibbs in, 99–105, 242–43, 285, 313, 365

World War II and, 164–66, 169, 173–78

New Yorker, 120, 265

New York Evening World, 68–69

New York Fire Department, 175, 368

New York Herald Tribune, 235, 264, 265, 296, 304, 314